DC tac hook up..?..

I had a autometer tach like that is used a mini generator that was ran by a tach drive dist, the generator screwed on the tach drive dist and the two wires hooked on the two studs on the generator, they worked really good. by buddy still has one in his coronet, but you need a tach drive dist to make it work.
Yes that was it he was talking about a tach-drive distributor..