Your cable wire may have broken off at some time and is too short to get full movement. This can be fixed by pulling the choke knob out 6 inches and cutting the cable jacket back and inch or so or until you have enough cable sticking out for full engagement of the choke plate.
You have a lot of cable jacket extending beyond the clamp. This is why I suspect that your cable wire is too short.


1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission