When Mopar built a high-performance engine during the supercar era, lighting the fire was most often handled by the venerable Prestolite dual-point distributor. Using this instead of the normal single ...

Geez, it's been way too long since I've made it out into the garage to work on my '57 Chevy pickup, but I finally got my butt out there yesterday. It'd been so long that honestly I wasn't quite sure ...

At 7,000 rpm, a spark plug ignites the air/fuel mixture nearly 60 times per second. Any one of those 60 sparks going amiss can at best be mildly annoying, and at worst cost you a race or an engine.

There's nothing wrong with having points in your distributor. There's also nothing wrong with walking across country. There's just more efficient ways to get both jobs done. We had a 1959 Willys CJ-6 ...