On the cusp of A-body ownership: Help me with a 1969 Valiant!

It's even clean where you can't see it. One of my justifications for paying twice what one of these things are worth is that the cowl is solid. As the owner of a '71 Mustang, I know just what it takes to drill out the spotwelds and MIG a new cowl in. Eugh.

Before I bought it, I test drove it in pouring rain. Not a single leak onto those rubber floormats. Puts a smile on my face!

Now to find out why I'm getting cranking with no spark at random, despite a known good resistor. Betting it's the ignition switch. Mopar master tech next door lent me his copy of the '69 shop manual. As much as I like the Mopar shop manuals, the '69 manual is much less detailed in diagnosis procedures than I had hoped - my '98 B-series van shop manuals are much better in that respect (but in every other respect is almost identical to the manual 30 years its senior).

-Kurt