Merv quote: "It's a combination of s/happens and Muphy's law."

Man, you hit that nail on the head didn't you my friend!?

Look, I am leaning towards thinking the old original distro assembly needs replacing and just figured the HEI "all in one" option is a good one. I'm not set on any specific replacement just yet, just thought I'd throw that Ebay link out there for comment.

I went to the NAPA guy this evening and he says the best MSD kit for what I want to do is close to $250. That may be the way to go, but I've got plenty of time to figure this out. NAPA guy says, as a troubleshooting cost measure - replace the stock distro assembly for 50 bucks, then attach my fairly new Accel HEI parts to it - and see what happens. He's a pretty good guy.

Besides, I garauntee that tommorrow morning I'll go out to the garage and she'll crank right up! She probably won't on Sunday afternoon, but we'll see when we get there!