Always check your gas tank! I was driving a '47 Chevy car (all original) thru Kansas last winter when the fuel lines and filter plugged up due rust and crud coming from the tank. Replaced the tank in -5 weather in Nebraska and she started right up (imagine that, sitting for 2 weeks in temps that hardly got above 15, 6 volt system, primed the carb with fresh gas and started right up). Then, though, I had ice form in the fuel pump! A one dollar can of heet probably would have saved me there. So, thoroughly clean (or better, replace) that fuel tank, and carry heet in the winter!
Happy stovebolting,
Tyler


1953 3600 Pickup
1946 Fleetline Aerosedan
1948 Hudson Commodore