Poll - How far away from home do you drive your classic?

ChuckDock said

Ok, good deal. Sounds a lot like my car except the front end, which I'm doing now with the off set bushings, and t-bars and all the rest of the front end parts.
Electrical...mine is still original and worries me a bit.
I know this isnt a purist thing, but I was thinking about replacing the alternator and distributor with GM type parts. Then no ballast resistor, no external regulator and a lot less wiring. All for the sake of simplicity and reliability.

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Funny I was worried about wiring...took the car to Carlisle last summer. 500 mile ride each way. Of course the second I got on the highway I had a weird vibration but said the heck with it, and plunged on. Got to Carlisle and parked the car in the hot sun all day to go enjoy the car show. Went back to the car after a long day, fired it up and smoked rolled out from under the dash...electrical fire...not big, but I was 500 miles away from home! So I pulled all the fuses I could and disconnected the instrument cluster then fired it up again. No more smoke. I drove all the way home with no dash but made it. Since then I've replaced all the under dash wiring as well as put in an after market dash and gauges. I've only drove it 100 miles since then, but it seems good now. Break downs take the fun out of rides when your far from home.