Re: 55 Patrician Conked Out While Idling, Won't Start

Posted by fredkanter On 2017/6/9 8:12:51

When I speak, I speak from knowledge. We owned this car from about 1970 to the time this winter when we sold it to Trevor and knew the car from end to end. When we readied it for sale to Trevor we went over the car very thoroughly to assure it was road ready and reliable including checking the ignition on a dwell meter and adjusting the points.

When it left our shop it was running well and it was flatbedded the 60 miles to his home. I will again say it is impossible that the distributor bushings wore out on his few around town drives in Trenton, perhaps 5 to 10 miles.