Distributor vacuum advance hitting intake.......

My first car was a 265 57 Chev. When I first started out I never knew there WAS a right and wrong way to install a dist. I would just drop it in, with the vacuum can "about where" I wanted it, and bring up the marks. I was too ignorant then to know how to find compression, so I'd just "try" it and if it backfired, rotate the dist--or the wires--1/2 turn.

Back then we had REAL gas stations, and one of the guys I knew was watching me check the oil. He says, "That thing can't run, the distributor is all wrong."

"Well I drove it in here......................."