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Unless clogged, very doubtful that filter or those hoses are an issue since they are so new. Don't know what the connection between the pump and metal fuel line looks like at either end on a 38 but if it has a hose, then unless that is fairly new too it would still be a consideration.. Another fuel filter like issue that could cause issues could be in the fuel pump. It there are any fine rust particles in the tank there is usually a screen arrangement in the pump fuel bowl that can get clogged very quickly if the rust problem is bad enough. Also the usual cautions of making sure the vent for the tank located in the filler cap is present and open and making sure nothing is in the tank that could be moving around and intermittently being able to block the fuel intake opening.

If the coil is acting up, it can take quite a few minutes to cool enough to work again. If you can almost immediately start the car after it quits, not as likely to be a coil issue but along that line, capacitors also can have heat issues and there have been far more problems with new capacitors than coils. Usually those fail hard and the car would not be as likely to start again if it is the culprit. If the car has an internal distributor advance plate, sometimes the flexible wire connecting the points and condenser to the outside terminal can lose a chunk of the fabric insulation. The advance plate when moving can short the bare spot in the wire and mess up or even kill the engine only to have it start again when the plate moves back to the resting spot and clears the short.