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I put it in 3rd, rolled it forward and the engine turned. For kicks I tried the starter and it worked! I guess it just needed that initial turn. I'm surprised it ran with that old gas, but it did! Thanks to all for the advice! This made my grandpa pretty darn happy.

The connection seems to be good. We've tested it multiple ways using a multimeter and jumping the ground from the battery to different points on the frame. The lights work, and the horn sort of works, but I think it has problems of its own.

I'm up at my grandparents' house for the week, and I've decided to work on grandpa's 1929 Model A to see if we can get it running. It was parked a few years ago and ran at the time with some bogging on hills, but I wasn't there for that so I don't know the details. Today we tried starting it and...