This car belongs to a local businessman. He's great at what he does, but mechanics are not his thing (by his own admission). He bought the car a few years ago and it had a few problems. I offered to work them out for him and we have been slowly ironing out the issues.

I hadn't heard from him for a while and figured everything was OK with the car. We ran into each other in a store the other day and he told me the car wasn't running. He had tried to start it and ran the battery down, so he put it on charge. The battery wouldn't charge and he replaced it. Trouble is, he forgot that model A's have a positive ground and reversed the polarity. I thought maybe he had blown the Pertronix ignition and possibly the special 6 volt alternator as well. We talked it over and I told him to drop it off so I could check it out. We decided that if all that stuff needed replacing, we might as well just convert it to a 12 volt negative ground. The 12 volt stuff is just easier to find locally.