It had to bring a glimmer of pride to the old mans eye.

Years ago a man had a Model T that he stored out back and he removed the rotor from the distributor to keep the kid from running around with the thing when he should be going to school or doing some other more productive thing with his time.
A short time later it was noticed that the Model T was being run on a regular basis by his son. It seems he had fashioned a rotor from a nail and some wood. Figured out the timing and put things together so it would run.
Now he was a upset since he told the kid not to use the Model T but you’d have to think there was a certain amount of pride in the fact that the boy had figured out a way to make that thing run like it should.