The symptoms sound like an ignition problem. When you "revved up" the engine it temporaly cleared the fouled plug. I would look for a bad ignition wire, worn spark plugs, cracked or tracked distributer cap. If it has been a while it probably needs a tune-up. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, "Payne" <bpayne@xxxx> wrote: > Today I went for a nice long drive in my D, a favorite hobby nowadays. It > had been functioning flawlessly all day until I pulled into a store parking > lot and it began to idle really rough. I parked, and when I came out of the > store it wouldn't start. A passerby suggested that I floor it and then try, > and that actually worked. It started right up and the idle smoothed out. > After I drove it again the idle became just as rough and seemed to be a > couple hundred rpms lower than normal. The car is driveable, just not