Its an'02 . When I got home this evening I tried to duplicate the problem....no luck. Took it out for a drive and had zero problems. Started fine, idled fine with AC on or off. I'm going to check a few things in the a.m. to see what I can see. It could be the fuel pump. She's had two episodes of bad gas (filters were changed immediately during and after) and a case of vapor lock so the fuel pump has seen some tough times. I'm also going to check for codes to see if its thrown any.

I knew the VSS fed the speedo but was thinking the VSS controlled part of the shifting and maybe there might be something VSS/transmission related that was causing it to die. Indications being the bad speedo readings.

If you knew my luck you wouldn't rule anything out!