[Cliff R]

Points and condenser make more sense these days than ever before. Right to start with the vast majority of these vehicles woln't see 20,000 miles in the next 200 years, getting driven mostly in nice weather and couple of trips to work and maybe a weekend outing each month.

I LOVE setting distributors up with points and always buy two sets. One set get the dwell set then goes in the glove box, the other installed, dwell set, engine timed, and we're in business.

I'll also add that aside from a very slight advantage on cold starts and improved idle with MSD stuff (if your carb is too lean), a set of points is a fine high performance item. I still remember years ago when a very good friend and fellow racer swapped out the points distributor we had set up for his race car and replaced it with an MSD billet unit. He'd been running 6.50's around 104-105 MPH 1/8th mile and the car immediately slowed down about .03-.05 seconds. We couldn't figure it out, till some old time told us that even though both distributors were "locked-out", the points provided some natural timing retard at high RPM's accounting for the very slight performance advantage.

Jump ahead to about 15 years ago just for fun we decided to back to back an MSD billet distributor against my "stock" HEI, that uses a factory 990 module, stock weights, springs, etc. The only mod is that a positive stop for the advance is welded in. The dyno runs were near blueprints of each other with a very slight advantage to the HEI, but nothing to start doing back-flips over.

Once again it shows just how good the factory parts really are, and they are very reliable in long term service, unlike a lot of this aftermarket crap that is available these days.......FWIW.......Cliff