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That's right, Dave! I'm on vacation this week in Myrtle Beach with my in laws. The ocean is beautiful and they are good people but sitting around for a week is not for me; I'm bored out of my skull and its only been four days. My wife loves it so I'm doing it for her since she was gracious enough to let me run up to Ohio for two days and pick up this car. I need my man cave!

This thing is having a weird ignition issue. I'll sit there and idle great for about 10 minutes, then it starts stumbling, dies, and will not restart until it cools down a bit. I think I have it tracked down to an ignition issue; there is a Pertronix ignition in it. I talked to the Pertronix rep, he's coming to the same conclusion. I know a lot of guys swear by these but I had always steered away from them because when you have an issue, there's no local parts source. So I bought a rebuilt slant six distributor and ignition module from ORiely's and will give the retrofit a shot. I did Langdons HEI on the last flathead and it worked well but this is about half the cost and i can use the new plug wires that are on the car rather than buying an HEI set. We've got one of our bigger annual shows Saturday so im hoping to have it done by then.