318 2bbl won't idle without choke

Daily driver. I've been working on reviving it and trying to make it as reliable / robust as is reasonable. I would have loved to have it driving this fall (and feel like I was right on the cusp of it; I had everything sorted besides the carb tuning before this) but I'm not entirely against pulling the engine and rebuilding it in my garage over the winter either.

If that's the case, personally I'd pull it. For a DD, my personal expectations are pretty high. I would want a nice, clean, tight engine in a DD.