Ah, yes... blow an ignition module and you ARE going to walk to get the replacement while on several occasions my old Dodge PU came home with a piece of cardboard isolating one of the pair of dual points. Redundancy and simplicity built in. Of course, it would be nice if you had a carb built to that same standard but about all the ones produced in recent years have so much crap hung on them (by gov't fiat or for exoctic performance) that they can barely perform their basic function of delivering a combustible mixture to the cylinders when they ARE working right.
And a decent toolkit was a hammer, a screwdriver, a pair of pliers and one roll of bailing wire. I guess that nowadays you would also have to add a roll of duct tape, tho .