How many people nowadays could drive something with a carburetor? I have a mental image of a young’un repeatedly turning the key and getting click-click-click because he didn’t know to goose the gas pedal first.
Three to five times and then start it. What happens is when you pump the gas it closes the choke sets the fast idle and pumping the peddle gives it more juice.
On the REAL old cars, you had what they called a manual choke. Pull it out, pump the gas and start it and adjust the choke to run it till it warms up. Then open the choke all the way...by pushing the choke nob all the way in. Then, there was the ones which had the spark advance...
Thems the good ol days hey?
BTW, never try and hand crank a car with the spark advance lever without adjusting it right. And never wrap your thump around the crank handle..remember that?
GD model A fords...I dont know if Henry Ford cursed us or what.