[Purdy Swoft]

I've had NO problems with a longer wire or connected directly to the coil. When I got my first model A some parts had been removed. It didn't run and there was no condenser.I was only a teenager. I didn't have the correct condenser and there was nowhere to mount a modern style condenser in the model A distributor. I removed the condenser from a fifties model chevy six cylinder and mounted it on the firewall. I cut the clip off the pig tail skinned the pigtail wire and twisted on a longer wire. I run this wire down to the distributor and connected it to the lower plate and it worked good, really. It was just common sense to me and I really had nothing to lose. I was later shown by an older guy how to connect the condenser directly to the coil. Both ways work good. Good modern condensers were available at parts houses in the day. the object was and is to get the condenser away from the heat of the exhaust manifold. Of course this ain't original but is a novelty to me.