Six cylinder torsion bars with big block

RaniDart70 said

Too many people use bigger brakes and so called upgrades to compensate for lack of driving skill. Just know your car inside out and backwards and don't try to drive it like a Ferrari that its not and you will be fine. I have driven slant six drums in Denver traffic and I found that when you pay attention, you wont run into anything.

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Driving skill and paying attention only goes so far. You can't change the physics. Big brakes don't make up for lack of driving skill. They shorten your stopping distance. Mario Andretti can't make a 9" drum equipped car stop faster than the same car with 13" rotors. You're just on the wrong side of the math.

Maybe you've been lucky enough not to experience it yet, and maybe you'll be lucky enough to never experience it, but you can have an accident while you're driving within your cars capabilities while you're paying attention. Things can always happen that are beyond your control. And when they happen, I don't want to be in a /6 torsion bar suspended car with 9" brakes, because I want to have options.

It's a free country, and you can do what you like. But don't think for a second that any amount of driving skill can change the laws of physics. The best driver in an inadequate car can only be as good as the inadequate car, no matter how much attention he or she pays or how well they "know" their car. The better your car performs, the bigger the margin is for you to deal with the unknown. It's just that simple.