I always think of this every time I watch or read one of the Lanse vs AC chapters. I must have been about 13 someone gave Dad a 58 Opel. It was a really nice little car {looked a miniature 57 chevy} that had a stripped timing gear. My brother and I were chomping at the bit to work on it. The day after He got it He had a guy that owed him a favor pull the motor and take it apart. When we got home from school the engine was scattered across a sheet of plywood rod and main caps separated and unnumbered, even then I knew enough that it was a total loss. We found another one that had been rolled over and the engine was laying in the in the trunk. Dad bought it for $40 and gave it to us. We set into to working on it but it was like a jig saw puzzle because we had not taken either one apart. Took us a while but we got it put together, but it would not run seems like we pulled it around for a month with a 3010. I knew we had fire at the points but not at the spark plugs. I was afraid to ask Dad so i talked to the old guy in the community that could fix anything and He said "does the rotor button look all right" and I said "Whats that? So he told me what it looked like and where it went. When we got home I looked in the trunk with the spare parts found what he described put it in, pulled it off and it fired right up. Lasted about thirty minutes and seized up. We had knocked a hole in the oil pan when were putting it in. Just remember Lanse going down the road of life it's good to read a map but it's better to to get directions from someone who has already been there. Ron
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