I had a '59 Ford Galaxy 500 when in college- not long after I bought it, one morning it wouldn't start. Called a mechanic friend, he came over, identified the engine as a 332 (little sister of the 352/390 series- weak sister, if you ask me)- immediately asked me when I last changed the spark plugs. I hadn't, because I hadn't had the car but a couple of months. He told me to get 2 sets of plugs- put one set on, and put the other set in the trunk, along with a spark plug socket and a ratchet. He said for some reason, that particular engine just eats spark plugs. You'll be lucky to get 5000 miles out of a set. When it won't start, especially on a cold morning, change them out, and replace the set in the trunk as soon as you can. The old ones will look fine, but just throw them away and don't try to re-use them.
And that's what I did, for as long as I owned the car. I got real good at changing them- once in Pullman, WA at 6� below zero.
Also had a '57 Pontiac on which two adjacent plug wires would push themselves up from the distributor cap and make the engine miss. Got a great deal on the car because of the miss, and felt pretty smug when I pushed them back in and it ran like a watch. But a little less smug when they kept working their way out again, time after time. Suppose a new distributor cap or wires might have solved it, but $$$ weren't real easy to come by at the time.
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