Well we got the new ignition wires, plugs, distributor and rotor installed yesterday (Sorry Gayle it was aday yesterday). The old plugs didn't look all that bad, but they did have 39,000 miles on them. I saw some improvement in gas mileage. I hadn't reset the 2nd mileage reading in a long time and lately it had dropped a few tenths over the last couple months. Over the drive home those tenths were restored.
I probably could have gone a lot longer, without doing this, but I'm glad I did.