It sounds like you've got one of the very scarce distributors that switched the polarity on the points every other startup supposedly to prolong point life, along with a switching gear on the stomp start switch. Most of them got disabled by simply connecting the second wire to ground or grounding the breaker plate to the distributor housing.
Jerry

Last edited by Hotrod Lincoln; 04/21/2011 1:06 AM.
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