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Well, it has been a fun day. The car started! First I had no spark, turned out it was the rotor that needed replacing. After that spark was good. Made my own tester to avoid getting bit. I grounded a screwdriver (via coated wire) to the car chassis. Saved me a good shock.

After fuel system and ignition tested good, I turned back to the timing issue. I removed #1 plug and placed a paper towel in the spark plug hole just enough to seal it. Cranked engine in short bursts until the paper popped out. Then I moved to the distributor. After take the advice, I could not get it to fire by aligning to the "6" on the distributor. So I rotated it 180 degrees and set to 1 and it fired! Car is running just a tad rough. I am off about one tooth on the distributor. Tomorrow I am going to fine tune the engine by moving the distributor one tooth. Thank you all for the help. Lesson learned, mark where the cap is in relation to the distributor. It will save hours of work!