In a very abbreviated form here is my story; I've owned my car for about four years and 40,000 miles at this point. (Some people say they're Yale miles which are a harder then normal miles So one thing led to another and it was time for an engine rebuild. With the engine apart and then back together the mechanic was unable to get the things to be where they should. So of course he started going through things to find out what was up. Eventually he checked the distributor. Now the same mechanic had sent the dizzy to Parts Klassik for a rebuild three years ago, so there was some surprise on his part to find that the rebuilt distributor had not actually been rebuilt at all! When we sent the dizzy back to Parts Klassic, they were surprised to see that it wasn't the distributor from my car that they had previously rebuilt at all(!) but one someone somewhere (during the last three years) had replaced with some bodged together unit.

The whole thing is just a bit surreal.