Art,..
What it feels like is the ' power ' is taken away. The rumble of the 2 cherry bombs sound kind of duddy then silence..., ( not the rich rumble I'm use to hearing..).
I just figured since I had lights, radio, gauges etc, it porbably wasn't the electrical.
And since it has beeb sitting in a bodyshop, with the hood off, bed off , fuel tank disconnected, I'd take it in to have the electrical fuel pump cleaned/ checked, as ell as the carb...
who knows how other people treat your stuff, no one cares about it as much as I do.

cheap insurance,..piece of mind