While you have it running, spray some carb/choke cleaner all around the carburetor base and the seam where the top joins the body. If the engine revs change you have found your vacuum leak and likely point of warpage.

When the carb is off the car and taken apart, lay the mating surfaces of the parts on a piece of window glass and look for gaps. A metal straight edge works, too, of course but the glass method is a little easier

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1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)

1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)