Robert Swinney wrote:
When "restoring" a vintage car how does one handle the ignition system? It seems a more faithful
restoration would leave the original ignition components intact. But, OTOH, switching to modern
solid state would be the best plan. Please advise.

Bob Swinney


What is the goal of the restorer?
Concourse and points style competitions with a trailer queen?
OR a nicely restored but fully functional driver?

Of course this also brings up the question of what can you hide in plain
sight with regards to the ignition. For instance on most points units
you have a single wire coming out to the coil. You can get two conductor
wire in a single black shell that would enable you to hide a Pertronix
module under the cap and use a standard oil filled coil and it would
look fine because you can hide the second wire in the harness.

http://www.pertronix.com/

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Steve W.