All my cars have a properly set up torsion bar suspension. My preference in this hobby is to enjoy the cars the way they came. I like old cars because I like old cars. I like the way they feel on the road, and all of their eccentricities. I can drive any of our daily driven rack and pinion vehicles, but I prefer to drive my Roadrunner. It is a 6bbl, 4 speed, Dana, manual steering, and manual drum brakes. That to me is heaven, just like it was in 1970, and it makes me happy to be able to enjoy it just the way it came.
I came to this thread to read about the HDK front end, and the coil over front systems that are available. I like engineering and figuring things out, not necessarily to apply to my cars, because in my world it takes the feel out of the car. But I don’t bash anybody that wants to enjoy their car in any way they see fit. It’s when someone bashed me for not jumping both feet into their vision for their car that I take offense to. I’m not a road and track racer, but I can certainly appreciate the setup that makes that possible in an old car. It’s just not for me, and I don’t appreciate being dogged about “not reading” the entire post. I don’t need to, I simply answered to the title of the thread.
And, as a matter of reference, when Denny wanted to build his front suspension for early A bodies, I gave him a shell of a car to do his mock up on, because I had it and he needed it. He offered me one of his HDK kits at a really good price, but I declined, because it’s not the way I drive my cars. I just wanted to help him bring his product to the early A guys that do want to drive that way.
