[Laneco]

Distributors on those are known to fail. I think it's actually a module inside the distributor that fails, not the shaft or anything readily visible.

It's just a car. Got gas? Yep. Got compression? Yep. Got spark? I'll bet you don't.

I'd put money on ignition (distributor/module in distributor/coil equivalent) etc. Have it towed, checked/fixed. Get a rental and do the operation on the poor fellow. This will probably set you back a couple of hundred bucks even if you wind up replacing the whole distributor with a reman.

Whatever you do, do it after a diagnosis, don't "guess." A distributor (however likely) is an expensive guess only to find out that a sensor has failed.

angela