40 seconds of cranking? Well that's way too much, any battery would start to lose it after that. Even 10 seconds is quite a long time. If you can crank for 40 seconds, bogging or not, then I don't think the starter is your problem, but it probably will be in the near future at that rate ;-) You're definitely getting spark the whole time?

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1967 230S automatic
Boston, MA