I have no idea how legit this thing is, but if I were an electric guitar player, I'd be twitchy.   

http://www.ebay.com/itm/202263621894

I have an odd guitar with lots of Stars Guitars electronics (post attached) and the pics in this listing look similar. Of course, creating a distortion module which clips the signal was not rocket science back then, but the results were not always as musical as they could have been.

http://club.alembicguitars.net/index.php?topic=1451.msg16549#msg16549