I used it several years and sold it to my father. A few years after that, I happened to be at his place one Sunday afternoon and we walked past it. I asked him, "How's the old Massey doing"?
He said he thought the engine was shot in it, it wouldn't hardly run. He told me he wasn't going to put any money into it, and if I wanted it, I could have it.
I lived only a mile from him at the time, and I babied it home on the road.
In snooping around on it, I pulled the distributor cap and saw the carbon button that contacts the rotor was gone. I had a VAC Case that happened to take the same Delco Remy distributor cap. I borrowed the cap off of the Case, fired the Massey up, and took off down the road. (Opposite direction from my Dad's place). I hit full throttle in road gear and you wouldn't believe the black soot and crud that flew out of the muffler. I ran it about five miles wide open in road gear and by the time I got home that Massey was running as pretty as you could want it to.
My Dad never mentioned it again and I never said anything.
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