Stubborn starting question...

67Dart273 said

Ok quit flopping around like a fish out of water, LOL

You say you "checked the spark" and there was NONE

STOP RIGHT THERE

Just exactly what did you do to accomplish this? Details of how you did so?

Now if there REALLY was no spark, that should have been a giant clue.

The very first thing I would have done is get out a clip lead, hook from the coil + terminal to a battery source, and re-crank and re-check for spark, and go from there.

You cannot just wonder. You cannot just guess. You actually have to CHECK some of this stuff. Now I realize that if this is a sometime thing, otherwise known as "an intermittent" this can be difficult.

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I may not be using the same vocabulary as you. My experience is limited to shade tree experimentation.

When I said "checking for spark" I was referring listening for any ignition past the turnover of the starting motor [the car was on the side of the road at the time.

When I got it home I checked more specifically by pulling the middle distributor wire free and seeing if it arced against the breather case, and putting an old plug in the number 1 wire to see if there was any pop. That was only after I got her safely off the street.

I am leaning toward some earlier suggestions regarding a combined choke-fule pump problem, confounded with a slipping distributor. She shouldn't have gotten that far out of Time that quickly.