About MCR

Midnight Coil Repair was founded in 2020.  After attending the Flatland T's Winter Clinic in McPherson, Kansas, owner and operator Luke Chennell was inspired by entrants of the Montana 500 explaining their processes and thoughts involved in creating the best possible tuning of Model Ts.  After purchasing an Electronically Cranked Coil Tester (modeltecct.com), I tuned my own car and became convinced of the importance of coil repair and tuning.  I'd experienced cars tuned on Ford's HCCT and found the results generally good, but not eye-popping as was the fundamental revolution of using Time-To-Fire as the metric by which to evaluate coil performance.  After my own car gained 5+ mph in top speed, I offered to tune some other friends and club members cars.  As we all experienced dramatic increases in performance, I began to advertise services. 

After much experimentation and a few failures, I refined my coil rebuilding process to provide the most reliable and consistent performing coils that I could.  Every satisfied customer brought me more business, and as that happened, I found myself more and more engaged in learning and making cars run to the best possibility they could.

I started taking in customer coils in 2020, and haven't looked back.  I am a professor at McPherson College's Automotive Restoration Program (www.mcpherson.edu/technology).  In my career I work with young people, exposing them and educating them in the craft of restoration.  I teach primarily mechanical subjects including Chassis and Drive Train restoration, but my passion has always been electricity.  Midnight Coil Repair is so named because I work at night in my basement coil rebuilding facility, charmed and happy with every set of coils I send out that makes yet another Model T run its best.  

At this point I've done well over 1000 coils for customers around the world, including Australia, Japan, and Canada.  I take pride in helping other enthusiasts and am always willing to provide support and assistance, including support for all buzz coil related questions, Model T or otherwise.