Starts and dies for first three times

maybe someone can tell me what in the world im missing over here to get this thing to be even remotely back to a stock set up.
i don't appear to have anything related to a "fast idle" screw for my carb.
I am fairly certain i have narrowed it down to be a holley 1945, but of all the pictures i find online none of the brackets match up with mine.
I would love to throw on an electric choke conversion kit onto it and just not muck with a choke ever again, but im worried I will buy it and someone changed some parts around and its just not gonna fit.
anybody know these carbs really well and tell me if im missing parts and/or what i am missing?
the more I look at it the more rigged it seems.

this is the choke side. that wire in the top is the manual choke thats mounted inside the car.

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