Cold Starting Long Standing Engines

Check oil level, prime the carb and start it. Bottle feed it if necessary to keep it running (small starter fluid shots down the throat) until your oil pressure needle hits. Then run it as break in prescribes. No blood, no foul. Started Grandmothers Buick after 12 years of sitting with a jump start: filled the carb with gas, a splash down the throat and full choke. Started right up, ran fine after 30 seconds of blue smoke. We could smell the old gas (?) burning once it ran for about 2 minutes. Still ran fine. Tires were junk so no high speed thrashes.