Last week, I talked about troubleshooting a car-died-while-driving condition on my 1969 Lotus Elan +2, which I eventually traced to a broken contact face—on a set of points that didn’t even have 300 ...

From the early 1960s through 1974, Chrysler provided the buying public with a hardy, reliable, low-amp charging system that required minimal upkeep. The pre-1970 Mopars were equipped with a ...

In the mid '70s, GM began offering its SI-series (Systems Integrated) alternators, which not only delivered more amperage but did away with the externally mounted voltage regulator and its messy ...