Prestolite ignition DIED..!!

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 Steve_P wrote:

We know this, but a reminder: the last carbureted vehicles were built in the early 1980s; don't expect to find a carb kit anywhere local in stock; that was 40 years ago.  You might as well expect to find unique Studebaker parts in stock at the local Napa.   The only vehicles that I see in my area on the road that are that old, are trucks.  As far as points, they went away earlier so don't expect to walk into a parts store and find them.  But as I said, if you maintain them at even half as well as you should, they don't fail.  No one carried spare points and coils 50 years ago.  But we're supposed to think the Prestolite and Unilite were an improvement "as long as you carried a spare... in the glovebox"?  no.  They were less reliable, but offered no maintenance in return.   I know multiple people that had unilite modules fail on weekend drivers.  Optical pickups suck. It they were so great they'd be the norm.  They're not; hall effect and magnetic is.  Why?  Reliability.  