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Originally Posted by AcampoDave
That may have something to do with that flapper gizmo on the exhaust being messed up. It could be a poorly functioning choke, a carb needing a rebuild, maybe a vacum leak, and yes, in part perhaps a worn out distributor.
But remember that it is fairly normal for a carburated engine to need a warm up period in cold weather. Especially when the carb is hanging off the side of the motor. Dropping another thousand bucks on it, as you said, may only wind up in disappointment and I've seen it many times when big ideas don't pay off and another basket case project gets sold on Craigslist. (Been there, done that)
Starting with the basics, a good tune, a distributor and ignition system that is verified to be fully functional and making sure your stock carb and its related components are up to snuff would go a long way toward buying the time to research any future engine mods more thoroughly
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I've owned carb cars before, this is the oldest but maybe its lengthy warm up procedure is normal. The choke is manual and that exhaust flapper looks like the only fix would be a new manifold. I do like your reasoning starting with a new distributor which is a cheaper and easier route. Maybe a summit distributor would suffice where an MSD would be overkill. A good carb clean and rebuild would also be fairly easy. I just need to figure out which one I have.