opinions welcome on build.

AJ/FormS said

I drove mine summer and winter 10000-15000 miles a year for many a year. In the first 6 years she had probably over 80,000 miles.By ten years old she had maybe 100,000 miles on her. By 15 years she had been semi-retired for a bit, cuz I moved on. Today she has over 125,000, and the engine is still strong.
My son even got to drive it putting a few miles on it while still living at home, and eventually took it to grad. Neither of us ever crashed it; Right from the beginning I told him; it's just a car. If it breaks we'll fix it. I built her to be beat on, and beat on it we did.
I know you and I are in different worlds; that's just how it goes.

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Very few cars here are driven like that I'd bet. The day of year round hotrod is gone, we all have are project cars that aren't even close to practical to drive as a year round daily driver. I think your projecting something that is irrelevant at this point, a hotrod is a hotrod and the degree of drivability is irrelevant. There build for fun and not to yours or any body else's standard. Sometimes I get the feeling that you haven't built any thing but what you have and that's simply all you know, and that's to bad. There's a so much more to the hobby than whats in your window.
Build a modern 408 with compression and aluminum heads or high compression and e-85 and forget the antique small block you have. Bringing your experience up to date because your thirty years behind the time's.