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I have had a 1967 122s with 60K original miles for 25 years. This is my 3rd 122 so i am pretty familiar with all the quirks, having driven my fathers until it fell apart at 275AK. This car has always started. I take it out most summers and drive it around for a few hundred miles. Last summer I took it out after it had sat in a garage unstarted for a year, but it started right up as it always has and I drove it to my house with the plan of tuning it up. Next day it would not start! Having all the new tune up parts, I replaced the plugs and wires and when I removed the Distributor cap, the rotor was all bent and burned. I replaced it with a new one, along with points and a condensor, picked out all the plastic pieces from the broken rotor, but it still wouldn't start. It cranks just fine. I held a plug wire close to the engine block while cranking but got no spark. I tried the coil wire in a similar fashion and also got no spark. Stupidly, I decided it must be the coil which is hard to find. i replaced it with a new replacement blue Bosch, cutting through the old armor cable on the old coil to save the ignition switch. But that did not work. I was right back where i started without the original coil which i am guessing wan never the problem. I located an original coil on Ebay and put it in but to no surprise, still no spark?
Can anyone offer me advice on how to figure out why its not starting? its getting fuel, battery charged. I am flummoxed!
Would love to get this jewel back on the road. If anyone has any advice, I'd be grateful for it. Please help.
Thanks,
Kevin
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