Daily driving an A-body

Depends on perspective and risk. I have seen lots of reliable old cars but I would not risk it for numerous reasons:

As a partner in a company with 30 people: If your car albeit 5 years old or 40 is unreliable and you cant show up to work it means to me that you are unreliable or irresponsible and the 1st person I target to lose their job..that is if I cant live with out you. Go buy a cheap $9k kia to get to work. In this economy I dont mess with anything that does not insure my ability to provide for the client as they never want to hear excuses. Nobody wants to buy new equipment but you have to amortize out the old and in with the new as it cannot fail as your business depends on it. Zero downtime.
Your daily driver is your personal "plant and equipment".

As a parent: If my 4/5 or 8 year old needs to get rushed to the hospital as they got hurt doing something stuipd I am not risking getting them there if a 40 year old car doesnt start..but there is always 911. More importantly the old car also has crummy safety as far as crashes, no crumple zones, seat belts inferior, average handling and brakes, no airbags, no ABS, no nothing.

If I were to build a daily driver it would be a cuda or dart hardtop restomod. Do a low mileage pull out 5.9 or new hemi with transmission, all stock, and stick it in the early car. Modern drivetrain reliability with old school looks.

Again...its just my opinion.

SK