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If it's old enough to be an original (Hawaiian Gardens) VS and has only 1200 miles on the clock, it's very likely the carbs were never set up properly to begin with (and this may be partly why the original owner sold it).
Setting up the carbs is not difficult, but it's something that must be done with every car before it will run decently. They are never right fresh out of the box, guaranteed.
There's lots of good information on doing this in our archives. If you are a wrenching type, you can probably work this out yourself. If not, pay someone who can, to do this and you will be good.
Return with us now to the days of yesteryear, when folks resigned themselves to dealing with the idiosyncrasies of carburetors. They run very differently when cold than when hot — especially if they have no chokes (and ours don't).
Generally, without chokes, the warmed-up idle must be set a little higher than normal to allow the car to run at all when stone cold. But first, the linkage and the jets and the mixture adjustments must be right, not to mention a check of the distributor performance and the ignition timing.
It all sounds daunting at first, but it's not.
Let us know how you're getting on and there will be more advice here than you can ever imagine — some of it helpful.
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