I'm somewhat of a diehard originalist. It's mainly due to the fact that I'm not the kind of gearhead that has the knowledge to make major changes in automotive systems designed by people who actually knew what they were doing when the car was built.
I like to be able to look in a factory service manual and read how things are supposed to be. It makes solving problems a whole lot easier. (laziness probably has a lot to do with it).
Jon G is exceptionally modest. If you don't have any beef against breaker points, stick with them and get a condenser that will last the rest of your life and the lives of your great grand children.
Since I've been on this forum, I've had two off-the-shelf condensers fail in short order. The first one had me checking for timing chain slack, etc. because I didn't realize how crappy the new Chinese condensers were. Prior to this, condensers in my vehicles have lasted decades, not a few hundred miles.
After reading here about the problems with new condensers and seeing they reflected my own experience, I purchased condensers for every single one of my vehicles, including those that had no ignition problems.
In the cases where the condenser was known to be bad, Jon's parts cured the problem immediately.
If I hadn't had the good fortune to have an AD truck and be on this website, I'd probably still be chasing ignition gremlins in two Fords.
I doubt I'll ever have an issue with Ol' Roy since I preemptively replaced the condenser. Same with all the other cars.
Unfortunately it's the junk parts you get today that drives people to the sub-par Pertronix system.
1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
