273 distributor rotor rotates counterclockwise?

That's funny Robert. That's the same order as all the Mopars.
Oh OK I see what you are sayin, but there was something different about it on the firing order iirc (other than the reverse rotation), I dont remember exactly what it was, but that sequence of numbers had stuck with me. I thought it might have been that with the timing slit lined up with zero on the dampener that it was at #2 TDC compression which does sound strange. OP post the outcome.