Someone commented on points, plugs, and condenser in an earlier post. It took me down memory lane. When I started driving, that was considered a basic tune-up and I learned it at my grandfathers knee.
Every six or seven thousand miles, we would find a convenient shady spot, crack open the distributor and make sure that the points were okay. In my grab-and-go tool bag, I kept a small screwdriver and a point file. You could pick them up anywhere and in a pinch, your lady's emery board would suffice. File the points, set the gap, clean the rotor and inspect the contacts in the cap.
The first electronic ignition I ever owned was on q 1975 Ford that I bought new to go on active duty. That car was never right, Ford simply had not figured out how to do electronic ignition. That car had a pre-ignition ping that simply could not be tuned out. From that car and others I have known since, I became convinced that most of the cars from that era were simply pieces of shit. The cars from the 60s were pretty nic and the cars from the 80s were starting to get better, but the cars from the 70s suffered from a number of ailments fueled by rapidly changing technology that was launched too early.
Nowadays even my Briggs lawnmower has good ignition.
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