I haven't been here much lately as my '72 has been running pretty smoothly for a while now. But I have suddenly developed a problem where - while driving - the car just shuts down. If I let it sit it will restart and run, but if I try to restart it too fast, it will start but as I press the accelerator it will rev and then just die again. The first time it happened it felt like I ran out of gas. I shut it off, let it sit for 10 minutes or so and it started right back up and has run without incident for the next week or so - until last night.

It almost feels electrical to me - I installed a Crane ignition 20+ years ago and have never had any problem like this before. I just - less than 5k miles ago - installed new plugs, wires and the fuel filter is maintained although I will take a look at it. Zenith carbs have been cleaned and synched recently and the car starts right up w/o any trouble.

Any thoughts?

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RG Newell

1984 300D
1972 250
1986 560SL
1991 300CE