Over the years I owned a number of British cars - a Series IV Sunbeam Rapier sports sedan (leather seats and walnut dash),  a Triumph TR4A IRS (a removable hard top, roll bar and racing seats),  Triumph Spitfire, MGB-GT, Austin Healey Bug-Eye Sprite (the sister car to the MG Midget), Sunbeam Alpine and the car I will forever regret selling a Sunbeam Tiger ( a revamped Alpine roadster with a Ford V-8 by the legendary Carrol Shelby).  The one car I always wanted to own but never bought was the "Big Healey" - the Austin Healey 3000.

My prized possession was a Uni-Syn multiple carburetor synchronizing/balancing gauge..

But the electrical systems???  YIKES.  There was reason that Lucas Electrical was referred to as "The Prince of Darkness" and spawned countless jokes.

The Lucas motto: "Get home before dark."

Lucas--inventor of the first intermittent wiper.

Lucas--inventor of the self-dimming headlamp.

Edison invented the light bulb, Bell the telephone, Lucas invented the short circuit