I recently acquired a 1929 Buick 4 door sedan. It will turn over but not start. the previous owner is deceased and the seller does not have any info on the vehicle. I was told it has been sitting for 4 years and has been started only on occasion. It is a 6 cylinder (original) motor. It has been converted to a 12 volt and has an electric fuel pump added. other that that it is original. Any ideas on where to start in order to get this gem running?

Thanks

 

Could you provide a little more info as to if it has an oil filled ign coil or other. Some older vehicles had a set of vibrating contacts on a boxed coil.
This can be quite a challenge although we should be able to hopefully figure it out. Does it have a distributor with contact points in it?

Can you provide some pictures to help ?

 

It does not have an oil filled coil and yes, it does have a distributor and points

 

Does it have the typical circular coil with high tension tower in the center and positive (+) and negative (-) small terminals ?

If so, when you turn the key to the start position , battery power is applied to the positive terminal of the coil. Can you confirm this ?
If it has power to the coil, the contact points open and close to provide the ground to charge the coil and when the points open the coil should provide a spark at the high tension wire that comes from the coil and goes to the center of the dist . cap. If the contact points either don' open or are dirty , no ground is provided to the coil and no spark will be produced. Can you verify this much?