But, alas, mye Empeg is not as well as it used to be. My dog ate it.

Heck, I thought that I had the monopoly in dog problems on this BBS, at least mine only want to eat cats, sheep and the neighbours's children.

because there *is* no distributor. They saved some cost by having all spark-plugs fire at the same time

I'm working from memory here, I accept that it does not have a distributor in the accepted sense, but, does it not have that cam-driven, make and break circuit that distributes the spark to the right (or left!) cylinder, instead?