RE: Car stopped puzzle

["Vink, Graham" <vinkg@fleishman.com>]

My votes, in no particular order, since it sounds like - to use the formal
medical term - a classic case of "sudden-onset no-spark syndrome"
 
-Points have slipped fully open or closed; or they just plain broke
 
-Broken rotor
 
-Dead coil
 
-loose/broken/disconnected wire somewhere in secondary ignition wiring,
including inside distributor.
 
-Graham