No plug wires No problem

[Jwilli]

Just use whatever you have.

[Tinker]

Barbed wire...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qudpRXZE3Yo

[Jwilli]

Tinker, I wanted to use some barbed wire, but I did not have any. "A" engines will run on just about anything.

[John Stone]

I've seen'em run on a piece of rubber tubing from the coil to the distributor.

Have used barbed wire on the spark plug when a connector breaks in the farm land.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Piano wire or a skinny Guitar string is FUN, looks as if it's NOT THERE!!
Bill W.

[Jwilli]

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Great suggestion Bill. I will try that.

[mshmodela]

Excellent McGiver Job! I had a 79' VW scirocco and the ground battery cable connector fell off and the car died as I was going about 60 (I was 20yrs at the time) ... I discovered the MIA ground cable clamp and to get home I yanked my speaker wire and made several loops of it to make a make-shift ground... It worked for 25 miles and got me home

[Tinker]

Never seen a paper clip but I'm fairly new.

Guess carrying bale wire back then was like duct tape today.

[SeaSlugs]

I had to fix the clutch on my s10 with a paperclip...always unsettiling when you push the clutch pedal, hear a bang, and the pedal is just swinging free as a swing and its still in gear...in the city...

soo found a parking spot and shut the truck off at the right time, wrapped paperclip around the shaft as the plastic retainer disintegrated. Drove the 4 hours home and that was 5 years ago... i should probably properly fix that soon...

model A related i bought a buncha stuff and had some sparkplugs with brass straps attached to the top. someone cut up a brass trophy tag and used those as wires!

[Tom Wesenberg]

Take an ordinary pencil and cut it to length, then sharpen both ends and tie it to the distributor and spark plug. Now you have a carbon wire.

In the 60's our family toured the Corning Glass Works in New York and saw a light bulb screwed into what looked like ordinary clear glass, but it was lit up. Need to find some of that special glass and tie it in place to fire the plugs.

[racingrufus]

When I was in high school I had some rube steal my coil wire. I made one from a wire coat hanger, it got me home. Dwayne

[russcochiolo]

A powered dune buggy in the '50's at Pismo. Lost the coil wire in the sand dunes. Used the hem from a t-shirt dipped in the radiator. Worked until it dried out. Re-dipped until we got home.

[jimvette59]

Lets keep the rat crap off this site. JMHO.

[fiddlybits]

Originally Posted by jimvette59

Lets keep the rat crap off this site. JMHO.

You have a strange definition of rat crap.

I call it creative thinking to get you home in a bind.

[Roadster Rich]

I also used a coat hanger. In college, on a trip from Troy, NY to Burlington VT, all of a sudden it started running awful and no power. One of the copper connectors was gone. I took a coat hanger from the clothes I had and used that. Back then you could not just order parts on the internet, so I used the car this way for about 8 weeks until I could get back to Vermont and pick up the right parts from Hemmings. Never knew the difference.

[james hitchcock]

Wow Russ. The t-shirt hem dipped in the radiator takes the prize. I would have never thought of that. Bravo.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Someone mentioned a vacuum hose for a coil wire, Apparently they have a lot of Graphite in the rubber.
Bill W.

[30ccpickup]

Here is a distributor cap made from a price of wood and fencing wire.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-IJqACbBgs