Never did understand why so many people keep saying the old stuff falls apart all the time. Perhaps it's that guys are building their cars with lower quality parts, and in some cases that is all that is available now???

It's not hard to get a carburetor to function right if you put some effort into it. I see guys at shows who have converted their old cars to EFI because they could not get it to run right with a carburetor. I'd spend a couple hundred to have a dyno guy tune my carb for me before dumping thousands on an EFI kit. I'd bet many of the guys with carb problems either bought a new one and bolted it on expecting to work great for the car right out of the box (ain't gonna happen), or they bought a $100 swap meet carb that has had 5 prior owners who have made a mess out of it.