Ran fine last night, wouldn't start this morning

For anyone else who has followed this, I just wanted to post and update after a long silence. After playing around with the car for some months, I finally had it towed down to a local mechanic in South Orange, NJ.

He determined that the reason why the car failed to start, was that the previous owner had the timing on the distributor so out of whack that he compensated for it by retarding the cylinder firing order by 1 (5,3,6,2,4,1). Seems it just finally caught up with me. After fixing the order and reseting the timing the car started up without hesitation.

Since then she's been running strong.