Ah my first car was a D-reg 1000CC Fiat Panda, used to feed it 4-star at about 50.9p/litre.
I rememeber that if it flooded from too much choke you could get flames to shoot out of the top of the carb
. All very amusing but didn't help with getting to work on time!
I spent many hours tinkering with adjustment screws and settings on the carb and distributer trying to get the damn thing to run properly. A far cry from plugging it into a laptop and moving some sliders around in Windoze
Still when it worked it went like stink since it was made out of tin-foil and weighed about as much as the banana I am eating right now...