[Dave at Pelican Parts]

Sounds like you need to refurb the distributor. You shouldn't be able to just push the points plate around, it should be spring-loaded.

The red wire is most likely the one to the AAR. Non-critical; not plugging it in will mean your idle will go up for a while as the engine warms up and will come down slowly after that. There will be a single white wire (tied into the fuel pump power circuit) that plugs into it.

The Neidels are still around. I just recently saw photos of Sharon at the last Redwood autoX up at the airport, in fact. We have lost most of the local autoX sites, though. There are still very occasional events at Alameda, but almost all of the PCA events are down at the Marina Airport near Monterey. But the Santa Rosa Airport site is still going strong. (We lost it for a while, but eventually were able to get it back.)

--DD