I am in the stick with the points crowd. Points are reliable as heck, require just a little maintenance, uses a standard coil, proven, and easy to replace. The key though, at least in my view, is to have the distributor rebuilt, or get a spare unit and have it rebuilt. You can’t believe what a difference it makes to have the mechanical advance working properly, the vacuum advance working properly, and the distributor working exactly as it should. A good set of heavy duty Echlin points, or blue streak lubripoints, will go to 6,000 rpm, no problem, so they will definitely get the job done at much lower rpms.
