The quote was actually "Lucas, the Prince of Darkness" now that I remember... The lights were actually pretty reliable, the starters and generators were awful, I had a coil once that would make the engine misfire only on hard left hand turns (heck of a time figuring that one out). Then there was the awfull electric fuel pumps, Oh-My (which may have been made by somebody else, I forget). Then there were the awful (never-the-same-idle-speed-twice) SU carbs, Oh the memories! And to think they put SU carbs on Rolls-Royces. I also had a Lotus Elan with Weber 40 DCOEs, which really, really were the BEST CARBS EVER MADE.