How to start car with no key?

Pull the plugs and see if you have fuel fouled them

Inspect the cap and rotor.........are they carboned, dirty, greasy, wet?

Crank it and check for spark at a couple or three random plugs, right at the plug. That is, pull the plug, ground it to the engine, and crank. You'll have to be sure to crank long enough that it goes "to that cylinder."

Make sure you are not "over" priming with fuel, and be DARN sure what you are priming it with actually is FRESH and actually IS gasoline.

Check the coil high tension wire with an ohmeter. "Rig" a spark gap such as with a screwdriver and jumper clip that you can hold near the top of the coil tower. Remember, the actual electrical contact is "down in" the coil tower. The coil should produce a nice fat blue spark AT LEAST 3/8" (inches) long or about 10mm.

If it does not, the points are damaged, not set right, or the condenser or the coil is bad


As someone mentioned, what "shape" is this engine in? High mileage, used? Maybe it's in such poor shape that it would barely run. You run a compression check? What do the plugs look like? New plugs? Old high mileage plugs?