Hi Spook,

Thanks for your thoughts.

The car will crank fine, and did so prior to the trouble so far as I could tell.

The battery is about a year old (replaced a Volvo battery that had been in the car for 20+years, no kidding, in Chicago yet!).

During my restart attempts I sapped it a bit, so yesterday I put a charge on it. On the DMM I pulled 11 volts after charging--same as the 11v read from the ignition coil primary. All contacts and connections are clean, but I'll pull the connectors off the posts to double check.

Going back to the original question: Assuming my cheap-o DMM is accurately, is 11v from the ignition coil insufficient to run the car?

If so, I'll replace the coil. If 11v and decent cranking should be enough, I'll go Randy's route and either try to start with starter fluid (haven't done that in about 40 years, to an old Ford V-8!) or at least try to check fuel pressure at the rail if I can look up how to do that with a gauge borrowed from Auto-Zone.

Thanks all for the great input.

-- G.