[wastoute]

It just seemed to me that every time you “pushed it really hard” you had to go home and re file the points to make it run smooth again. I used to drive around with several old sets in the glove box.

[usconservative]

I never had that issue, perhaps it was the quality of the points you were buying? I just got tired of having to replace mine twice a year. I'd spend at least an hour or two getting my AMX to run right every time. So I don't miss the good old days for that (among many other reasons.)

I'm in the market to buy a 68-72 Corvette and if it still has a distributor the first thing I'm gonna do is replace it with electronic. I'm not going through that b.s. again.

Then again, if it's the original motor it's coming out, getting re-built and updated. If it's not the original motor I'm probably going to pull it and put in a crate motor and do all the updates to it (4 wheel disc brakes w/anti-lock, update suspension, etc..)

[1Old Pro]

I used to drive around with several old sets in the glove box.

Yep, my 1976 Scirocco had a bad habit of freezing the points if they were closed and I was playing the pumped up radio in the parking lot of wherever.