Chrome or Orange?

Well...I put the Mopar chrome box and ballast resistor back in. I picked up a new chassis-ground cable (the home made one I had looked marginal), grabbed a new cap and rotor just to be sure and got back to testing the voltage everywhere I could.

I noticed that the lead going into the distributor was reading really low...tenths of a volt, IIRC. I though that was weird..so I checked again, pushed the probe in tighter...suddenly saw more voltage (didn't write it down) but I decided to give it another turn of the key and VROOM!!!!!

So I guess it has to be an old/corroded wiring thing though I still have no idea what happened. I have a new ignition harness on the way. It has been running like a top ever since.