There’s no longer any point(s): Houston, we have (electronic) ignition! Lucas, Prince of Darkness has left the building! Bolted this tidy little Crane FireBall XR700 to the firewall (just behind the upgraded ignition coil).

Timing is everything: hope tomorrow (in November in VT) is 60 degrees too, when I get back the rebuilt distributor (replacing the original points with optical) & fire it up.

Q: What’s missing? (hint: after a brief blaze of glory yesterday – actually running for the first time in a decade! – the part that heretofore occupied the area plugged up with a rag has been temporarily removed, off to the shop to be fitted with an electronic ignition, as part of the de-Lucasization campaign)

A: The OEM Prince of Darkness Lucas distributor

And thusly the mighty Lucas, Prince of Darkness, was at long last smote down by a lowly American-made (Painless) hotrod wiring harness as it was spaketh unto him: “let there be light!”





… unto all four corners did it shine …





… it even shown inward, illuminating all!

…But nor for long. Have resumed fighting one of the final battles of the Revolutionary War, by installing a modern-day wiring harness. In the initial stages of this uprising however, the British are still winning.

Nonetheless, I intend to stand up to the tyranny of the Prince of Darkness, and replace the OEM wiring and all possible Lucas electronics with a current hotrod wiring harness, made right here in the colonies by Painless. Despite using the most basic harness they offered, it’s still a lot more wires than used to be there!