I tend to agree with that. My days of laying in the gravel on the side of the road trying to do repairs are long in the past.
I will say that back then, I used to do it quite often. No cell phones and with a trunk full of tools, I would just deal with it and get it done. I remember resetting the points in my ‘70 Duster on the side of the freeway using a matchbook cover as a feeler gauge after the points screw rattled loose and closed the gap. One time I had to hot wire the headlight switch after my headlights went out at midnight on a dark back road.
