Car died for 20 min after a few bouts of hard acceleration

Hey, @Mattbearpig, have you tried any of the ideas in the other posts yet. I am very curious what the problem is. That happened to me in a 65 Corvette I restored. I stopped to get some gas, and it wouldn't start. It was running great, and everything in and on the motor was new, so I knew it wasn't anything drastic. The first thing I looked at was the distributor. It was loose. I got it started and tightened the base nut with a borrowed wrench. I am hoping that your problem is likewise simple. One other thing to check, and this happened to me also, is the points. I had the little tab that rides against the cam lobe in the distributor and opens the points break off. So the points were not opening.