Update. Great call Pete on first things first. 123 Ignition can wait.
Starter fluid did not work but did shoot out in a white plume of smoke when finally started.
Swapping the leaned out and gray Bosch platinum plugs to Bosch WR5DC+ spark plugs helped quite a bit but still the starting and catching problem persisted. It would Crank for a while but no start, then usually poor start for like10 seconds. Reeked of gas. Plenty of spark. Swapped in new cap. No change.
Paul Abbott suggested checking my .55 idle jets. I then did and found debris in one and my old eyes may have seen small obstructions in the rest. Blew them all out and the engine fired right up.
Side note: This symptom was different than last time I had debris in an idle jet. Last time the car started fine but only ran on 5 cylinders with bucking. This time, the engine had trouble starting but ran kind of fine eventually. Weird.
Now on to fix a dragging caliper.
