Had a bit of a misfire driving back from Omokaroa (Free pizza at the Village Green on Sundays if you take a pre-1990 car) a couple of weeks ago.
Left it in the shed until the following week when we took it to a Friday night thing up in the hills of Waikino.
It hadn't fixed itself.
One the way back after dinner at the Waikino pub it was getting worse, including a couple of massive backfires coming in to Waihi.
Did make it home but barely perhaps.
I wondered if the dizzy had moved but it seemed fine.
Next on the hit list was the Pertronix ignitor thing, I put this in the car maybe 20 years ago or so and haven't had any issues in that time.
For a long time I carried the old point set and condenser in the trunk, but it wasn't there any more.
Had a hunt around and finally found them, still in the original box.
So hoicked the modern thing out
And put the good old kettering ignition points back in
And it has been all good for a couple of runs to the beach since.
I do need to tweak the timing a bit as I can hear some pinging, can't find my timing light yet so I might try it with a vacuum gauge which I did find.
Probably won't bother with another pertronix since it doesn't see many miles these days.