Good advice if you live in dry , toasty , Texas .
However , in the cold , wet , climes of the north , the points can corrode enough over winter to make them useless .
My advice still stands .

 

I always back in to a garage when I'm storing an old car, that way I can pull or replace the battery, fill up the float bowl, and mess with the ignition if I need to whenever I finally get back to it. Even if it's difficult, it's a good practice.


Condensers seldom go bad, so that probably doesn't matter.
You can test it functionally if you follow the procedure at the top of the thread.


It's the centrifugal advance.


The points can be good and look bad, or be bad and look good.
It doesn't matter what they look like, and, be honest, you can't really see them in there anyway.
The point of the procedure at the top of the thread is that it allows you to test the points with minimal tools to see whether they are good or bad.
Most good ol' dwell meters also have a setting to measure points quality - you could use that pretty easily as well.

- Eric