Desperate things you did to keep an engine running...

Even though i've only been messing around with cars for a year and 4 months, there are a couple stories. The main one is-
I was going to a cruise night in the duster and I had just re-re-rebuilt the holley 1920 to make it to this show. The bowl was so warped that I had to use silicone, cork, and more silicone to keep it from leaking. totally wrong-but it held fuel.
I got it together about an hour before the event and It drove there flawlessly. On the way back, it died in an intersection and it started running rough and popping. oh well, I made it home and went to bed.
The next day was an annual 9/11 car show and I just decided on a whim to go. Less than a quarter mile away from my house so no problem-- I thought. On the way there it was barely running at all and any throttle it would pop and die. It took like 15-20 minutes to get to the show. I parked, barely, and then just enjoyed and remembered and didn't think about it.
Then it was time to go. I went to start it and it just cranked and cranked and cranked. Went out, adjusted the idle mix screws, messed with the Accel. pump cam, then tried again. After like 50 pumps it started and ran TERRIBLE. just popping and dying every ten feet. got out again, (it already had to have the choke wired halfway closed to run right in the first place) and I just shut the choke all the way and tied it off.
Turned the idle screw all the way out until it almost fell out of the carb and tried again. It still wouldn't run under 2000 rpm but I was able to double-feet it and take the back way home to keep it going.
As it turns out; the holley 1920 foam fuel bowl sheds the foam off of it when it gets old and sits in varnish for 40 years and it clogs all the oraphaces in the carburetor.
That was the last time the slant ran. at that cruise night I found out that the organizer had the 318 and trans I have now. went and bought it that week and swapped it.