I drive old trucks daily,my "new" truck is currently a '74 Chevy one ton,and it doesn't bother me at all. As a matter of fact,I drove my '57 GMC half ton daily pretty much all the time I've owned it,until the jobs I began doing required a larger truck. I still use it for transportation whenever I have to work on my current vehicle. As I see it,these trucks were somebody's daily drivers from the tome they were new,and the owners were good with that,so if you restore/repair/maintain the truck now and drive it wherever you want to go,what's changed? I'll bet 99% of these old trucks were stone reliable transportation for at least 30 years,before wear and tear,or neglect,started causing minor failures in their performance. So if you re-new the "consumables" on an old truck,you should be able to rely on it for many more years.
As far as comfort,if you're not comfortable driving an old truck daily because of no power steering or air conditioning or stereo CD player,maybe you should just keep it a weekender and stick with a "modern" car for daily use. I drive my old beaters because I LIKE the way a truck with manual steering drives,and I do just fine without air conditioning,that's why the windows roll down. Another thing I really like is if something DOES go south on my old truck,9 times out of 10,it's something I can fix myself and be on my way. I've only been stranded once in an old truck,when I got a plugged gas line on the freeway and the truck quit. Under those circumstances,the only remedy would have been the same as if a more modern car quit-have it towed. The difference is,a modern car would go to a shop,where they'd charge a bunch of dough to find and fix the problem. I had it brought home,where it cost me about half a day and under 10 bucks to get it running. Hasn't failed me since.
This is all just personal preference;as was stated earlier,once the truck is restored and you start driving it,YOU'LL know if it's what you want to drive every day or not.
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