What’s your cold start procedure if the car has been sitting?

[Big Block Bill]

Originally Posted by Zedder

I was overzealous with the gas this morning and flooded the carb. What’s your cold start procedure if the car has been sitting for a few weeks/months?

I took a drivability class at the GM training center in Hinsdale Illinois back in 1979 and the teacher Peter Hockmooth told a story about a GM training employee was called to a dealership to address a customer who complained his late 60’s Chevrolet would not start for him in the morning.
So he had the customer leave the car at the dealership overnight and they met in the morning to show how he started the car. The customer got in the car and started by pumping the gas pedal as he turned the key. The GM rep stopped him and told him to pump the gas pedal twice to set the choke and high speed idle cam and then told to roll down the window and get out of the car then he said to lean in the window and turn the key to start and it fired right up in a high speed idle. The after 30 seconds he told him to get in the car and hit the gas pedal once. From that point on he never had a starting problem the car. Driver error was the culprit.