None of those things makes it unsafe. I would not hesistate to drop one on the expressway at 70mph and roll all day. People logged millions of safe miles without nannies everyone thinks they "need"
Once again...what i said. In a single vehicle high speed crash against a solid object...yes. Anything else youll fare damn good.
You know how many nights ive ran 45-50mph in a snowstorm driving my 77 F250? With no ABS, shitty steering, no nothing and have been perfectly safe? Battled numerous michigan winters in a 1st gen 2wd ranger with zero mishaps? Its about the DRIVER.
Dont drive your ranger like your mazda and youll be fine. Thats what im getting at here. Vehicles (old or new) being deemed "unsafe" because you had idiots used to 7feet wide, 20feet long, 4500lb station wagons with 3 inches of ground clearence hopping in a bronco II, rolling it, then claiming its unsafe. So the OEs had to start basically mounting a truck body on a car chassis and it ruined the truck/suv market for anyone who wanted a real truck/suv. Instead of saying "its your responsibilty to drive it as intended".
"none of those things make it unsafe" - till you HIT something. Then it's terribly "unsafe". Good luck trying to dodge someone who veers into your lane, or whatever. I guess if you run over someone else, and kill them, no big deal. Wouldn't want it on my conscience if the POS I was driving caused someone else to die, but that's just me. Look up the death rates, per mile driven, in the 70s.
Keep your shitty 70's junk. My ranger gets WAY better gas mileage than the Granada did (and the Granada wasn't a particularly large car for the era), STARTS (in cold weather!!!!!) and I don't have to mess with distributor caps and rotors. Or replace the exhaust every few years because it rots out (still on the original 97 exhaust system).
Like I said.... south Florida.... roads are straight, flat, weather is warm, and you NEED to drive the most massive, steel-cage vehicle you can, to keep from getting run over by the "headless" Lincolns and Caddys being driven where the driver is looking UNDER the steering wheel
OK, there, I just found a circumstance where your vision of automotive heaven exists
Frankly if I ever moved back there, I'd get an old school bus, or a dump truck, for a daily driver (think I'm kidding but I'm not). Between the Caribbean island natives driving 20mph in the rain with their hazards on, the drug dealers running from the cops, and the snowbirds who shouldn't be on the roads, anyway....
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