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to me, the worst things about these carbed cars is the hot start issues so you have to get aggressive about dealing with all the issues; like being able to get it started when you go to the grocery store! Other than hot start, I don't really think that drivability is a big issue; if you willing to stick with it, these carbs can be tuned well enough to drive fine (with worse gas mileage and not perfect a/f compared to EFI). My cold starts are easy...

Once the hot start and tuning is taken care of, the other not-too-easily-fixed issue is the warm up (neither of my carbs have a choke; and even carbed cars I have driven with chokes don't come close to a modern engine); but I think we can live with the warm up...