I have had very good results with the Pertronix units I have installed. I hadn't heard bad about them either until I read here where a couple of folks don't like them, or think well of them.
I sell these at the parts store where I work for farmers with old tractors and old grain trucks that they get tired of replacing points all the time. So far the track record with them has been good. In the 14 years I've been selling them, only one has come back.
Roy