Alright well here's what happened! Don't know if I should start a new thread on the subject seeing it's a different question...
The car is a 1964 barracuda, 273 and push button auto. It's all there and in good condition. This thing to me, was a barn find. We picked it up in the mountain area of San Diego in this guys barn for $1,100. While we where there, the guy put in a battery and did the screwdriver trick and the car began to crank, of course it had no gas (fuel pump had a hose going to no where, probably for a bucket of gas. -I believe someone already tried to start it). He told us it wasn't getting any spark.
So I thought cool, at least it cranks, that's half the battle for me!
We got it home put new plugs in, new ignition coil, points and condenser, oil change, of course some marvel mystery to the cylinders and some in the oil.
The cap on the dizzy and rotor seemed new, so did the plug wires. Like I said. I feel like someone has been to where we are at and gave up.
So we just reused those.
We tried cranking it with some gas down the carb, did nothing. I'm not sure 100% if this is how you check but I pulled off cylinder #1 spark plug wire and layed it on top of the manifold, cranked, got 1 tiny spark, then nothing. Okay tried cylinder #2 spark plug wire, again nothing. Took off cap and cranked, saw no spark at points. Removed ignition cool cable from cap and cranked, saw no spark.
I put a test light to the positive side coil, got a nice light, negative side got nothing. Put light to ballast resistor to coil side and got a dim light, the other side had a bright light.
I don't know what's wrong. As for as I can tell I am getting no spark. Unless I didn't check right. Any ideas?