I'd look at the points, check for power at the positive coil terminal and make sure the ballast resistor had continuity of about 1.5 ohms or so. May have to hot wire it if you want to hear it run, then back track wiring.
You can run a hot right off of the battery positive post to the distributor wire and it should fire,You basically bypass the ignition system. it will tell you what side the problem is on if it doesn't fire off. You can at least hear it run or verify it runs. It probably didn't run when parked.
