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I had this problem with several cars.
It happends with old starters.
The click that you hear is the bendix (I'll be damn if I know the official name). His job is to push the starter gear in position (it really moves the entire rotor until its gear is on contact with the flywheel) and ..... (here is your problem) to close the + from battery to starter.
Your high current contacts are shut/corroded or (ususally there is a spring that is pushing a plate over two contacts) your spring is broken/"tired".
The sollution is to open the starter, clean the high current contacts and the contact plate with sandpaper and double check the spring.
Clean and put everything together. How to try it:
You have 3 contacts:
1) small diameter contact- this is coming from key
2) large diameter contact (1/3" - this goes to + battery permanently
3) the case - is ground.
Connect it to + and - and just touch with + the key contact. Keep it firmly at this phase. You should see how it throws the rotor and how it starts cranking.
Do this several times at least to check that you put everything in the right position.
Good luck.
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