Given your usage -- you're correct. You'll just have to learn how to drive it "nicely" on the street... there's no lugging from a stop and traffic can be a lot of work. But who cares if it's rarely....
I had a D/G nose high '55 Handyman with a straight axle and a 292 ci - 4 speed - mechanical fuel injection.... it was a bitch trying to cruise Broadway on a Friday night.... but it could have been the whacky terbacky back in the day too...
