Tried to take my '68 bird for a ride today. Got to the end of my driveway when the engine quit. Had trouble starting it back up and when I finally did get it started again, the engine would only run for about a minute or two before dying again.

Any thoughts as to what might be the issue?

Any fuel in the bowl when it quits? Remove the air cleaner lid and manually move the throttle lever to see if the fuel sprays from the nozzles. If not, you probably have a sticking needle/seat or a sinking float.

That may make sense. Occasionally, especially in colder weather, the car will act fine until I hit 45 mph and then sputter, which could be the same issue...

I had this same issue a while back with a Holley carb I was running, and turned out it was a stuck needle and seat, flooding over into the carb out of the vent tube...I tapped it with a small hammer to get it home, then changed the needle and seat on the primary side.

Well, (drumroll here), the actual issue was....a bad, or going bad, contact breaker in the ignition system.

The mechanic said that he, too suspected the carb at first, but after checking that, he found the issue with the ignition system.

So new breaker and coil (coil was not in good shape, either) and its running again!

good news!

Indeed. Cheaper than dealing with a carb issue!

Hmmmm....now the car tends to stall out at idle while in gear...ok while driving down the road, but at a stoplight or tring to slowly drive into the garage, it stalls.

Idle speed may be too low, do you know what it is in gear(automatic)

I do have a tach on the car. Idle in Park is usually around 1000, but dips to 700 if idleing in Drive or Reverse...

That's right about spec., but you should double check it with a timing light with tach feature or multi-meter with tach feature to make sure. Also, is this stalling a new symptom since the coil/points replace...if so have that work double checked by the mechanic who did it. What carb are you running?

Thanks for the help Doc...

The stalling is new since the coil/points replaced. Carb is the original Quadrajet.

I had similar symptoms that got resolved by setting the timing.

Could be a vacuum leak,timing, or idle speed. Just to mention a few.

Seems like its ok at first. The longer the car is driven, the harder time it seems to have being in low revs without stalling.