Re: Easy driver?

Posted by Craig Hendrickson On 2014/1/28 11:35:24

Count me in the group that uses my 1955 Patrician as a daily driver. It is mostly an original survivor, but as most on this board know, I put modern brake booster/dual MC with front disc brakes on it. I also have a high end stereo which plays CDs and has a subwoofer in the back. I agree on the gas mileage, but it's not that bad compared to the big pickups and SUVs some drive around.

Recently (Oct 2013), I drove to my 50th High School reunion in San Diego (7 hours one way). Rather than drive my Pat (which would not have been seen by anyone), I rented a 2013 Nissan Sentra from Enterprise and drove it. After that trip, you could not pay me enough to own one. The main problem was that the steering was extremely "darty". One had to be constantly paying attention or the slightest road variation would cause the car to move somewhere and then that required correction on extremely fast steering. It was very tiresome to drive due to the attention required. By the way, most of the road there and back was pretty much straight 2-lane or freeway (I-15).

Oh yeah, I have had and recently put new radials on my Pat. Drives like a dream. My other car is a 1976 (Gen-2) Firebird with a turbocharged 400 engine. It drives nicely, but is scarey fast and gobbles gas like it cost nothing.

Craig