Hi and thanks to all for your e-mails and suggestions. To summarize, here's what members suggested: -cracked intake -hooking up timing light to coil wire while driving to see whether losing secondary ignition -power steering problem -disturbing some hose or wire while turning -distributor problem - loose wire? -excess fuel in the rams due to internal blockage -carbon debris blocking intake valve -two spark plug wire arcing -bad plug wires -cracked head -fuel starvation or too much fuel psi -vacuum leak -something loose in distributor -all cinammon "300G"'s pop. -curse of the left-handed gypsy woman Thank you all for your suggestions. Too many of them to answer individually, so please settle for a collective THANK YOU ! Now it is time for me to continue the diagnosis. I will keep you all posted as to results. That is, if I don't light a match to the car first... John