Show us some odd ignitions from the past

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WOW! Some Ol’skool stuff there. Everybody working?
 
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This one I've never seen- what's the story? Rudimentary CD?
Nope, that's a set of Capaci-Points. First pair I've seen an actual photo of; here are pics of where I know this from. This 1977 book was in my high school library—it's a low-level car maintenance manual stuffed with promotional sorta-ads for relevant products of that time.

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This is from an article in Popular Science, December 1962, about transistor ignitions. It's even got A-body content! The price equates to about $810 (eight hundred and ten dollars) in today's money.

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The distributor cap trouble the author had was probably because his car had not yet had this service bulletin applied:

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Dan this is the transignitor. Have a few different styles if the uni point. (points/cond)
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Here's the TSB on servicing the Motorola transistor ignition factory-available to fleets on the '66 models.
 

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Thanks I have the Prestolite books. Cool to share! There definitely is a following on them.
 
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