Solid wire ignition

Here's an old story I was told and I think it came from the Champion plug guy, in the mid 70's. Champion used to have "booster gap" plugs. This was an intentional gap in inside the insulator of the plug. He claimed that it worked, and that GM "negated it" by making the rotor SHORTER which essentially made a booster gap in the cap. Evidently the idea is that if the plug is in a bad situation "firing" wise, such as mixture or oil, the gap will allow power/ voltage to build up and actually help the plug fire.

You have to realize, that even back in the very early days, there were all kinds of this sort of stuff, and MAY BE they actually worked to some extent.