Yeah, there's the negatives insofar as the Lucas electrics, but many of those British cars are some of the dead sexiest cars on the planet.
I assume that in most cases, when one wants either a driver or to convert one to a racer, all that Lucas stuff gets ripped out and upgraded to some kind of setup with present day reliability.
Purists/restorers are the only ones who
have to continue to suffer, right?