Shocks: looking for Blistein quality at KYB price.

This is all great information.

Preliminary report on Bilstein RCD shocks on my bone-stock, low-mileage '64 Dart sedan with A/S radials:

Exactly what I expected.

Smoother ride with better control. Before, it felt like you were driving 10-20mph faster than you actually were, now it feels like you're going your actual speed.

With no sway bars, it's a bit wallowy in the turns, but that's what you'd expect.
I've added / upgraded front and rear sway bars, both factory and aftermarket, on a number of '60s cars over many years, as well as newer cars, like BMWs, and I know what that will add in handling and take away in smoothness, so I will decide what to do once I've driven more.

I feel the small bumps in the road more than before, but everything else is smoother.

Overall, I'm happy with them, and now I can make improvements as I see fit, but have a basically controllable, pleasant-to-drive car.
If I'd, say, gotten sway bars first, or increased torsion bar size first, I'd still have a car with 60 year old factory shocks that rode like crap.

This may be an unsophisticated thing to say, but for suspension upgrades for stock older cars, in terms of both effort involved and money spent, I fell that bolting on a set of Bilsteins is the best overall upgrade you can make.
Sure, you can increase spring rates, add sway bars, reconfigure geometry, and add re-engineered aftermarket components, but all of those require time to properly select compatible components, more time to install them, even more time to set them up and adjust them, and more money than it might initially appear, just looking at the prices of individual parts, and all of them will require a decent set of shocks to work right anyway.

Also, P-S-T gave me the FABO 10% discount no-problem (charged full price on card, then refunded 10%), and the shocks arrived at my house, shipped for free, like 2 days later, minutes after I received the tracking number in my e-mail, so, as in the past, I'm quite happy with them.

Thanks for everyone's input on this, and thanks to the OP for starting this thread.

- Eric