No start, wire on coil

A FEW OTHER rants and raves

Because you have a 74, it is undoubtedly equipped with the much hated "seat belt interlock." This is a small box under the hood, on/ near the left fender apron. It has a reset button, and under certain condtions will "trip" and disable the starter. That box has two yellowish wires going to the connector.........splice them together permanently

No spark..........Check at coil+ with key "in run". You should have somewhere around 6-10V but not much more. If you have "full battery voltage" that means the system is not drawing current. If you have zero, you may have a broken ballast resistor.

To check spark, "rig" a (prefer solid core wire) out of coil, to a spark gap and prop it up so you can see it through the hood gap. Crank the engine USING THE KEY. You should get nice snappy sparks about 3/8" or longer

Also, with key "in run" you can disconnect the distributor connector and take the non-distributor end in hand. Tap the bare end of that connector to ground, and this should produce one single "snap" spark each time.

DO NOT leave the key "on" an longer than you need to perform these tests