To get the car to even run.
Top dead center when the piston is up on he number 1.
We have to turn the distributor to number 8 wire to get it to run right
As long as I keep pumping gas into it when it's pointed closer to 8 the car will run
This is just me, but you started this post off by saying you had old gas in it. If I were you, I would drop the tank, flush it out with good gas, blow backwards through the line, carefully, to get as much as the old gas out as you can, then re-install the tank, put some good gas in it, and I would even clean or rebuild the carb(s) too. If you have bad gas, you won't get anywhere timing it.
