From: "Mark Hessey" 

"Steve Ewing"  wrote: When I consider the
suspension, tires, steering, etc. on those cars, > compared to today's,
I would be terrified to drive them.  I feel much
> safer in my minivan (my *wife's* minivan, I hasten to add) at speed then I
> did in my friend's 60's-vintage Mustang.

Yea, those solid steel dashboards invoked a feeling of confidence as you
slipped toward the car in front of you on glare ice on bias ply tires :-)
Speaking of minivans, a friends mother once stopped at the end of the
driveway to get the mail and hopped out after getting the shift lever only
to reverse, not park - the minivan went round and round in circles until
eventually the (also left open) drivers door was all but ripped off by the
lamppost :-)

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