1974 Scamp some assembly required

Yep had a few minutes this evening. Distributor was 180 out and finally got a little noise out of her. AND a backfire. Then nothing. Hmmmmmm.
Back to the drawing board. I'm confident with the coil, ECU, distributor, ballast and harness. I did however through on a rotor, cap and wires I wasn't sure about. Sure as **** took it all apart and found a badly corroded in the cap coil wire (that's embarrassing). How did that happen? I was excited. Doesn't matter, should have checked them. One bad plug wire, too. Back to O'Reilly's. Try again tomorrow.
Did you check to see if you are getting spark at the plugs?
While you have them pulled check and aee if you are getting fuel.
Did it run before the backfire? If so how long?