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[QUOTE=MadMan;3216744]Don't worry. Drive the car for a month or so, and you'll get so buff that nobody will want to pick a fight with you. :P
In the time I owned my International pickup I mostly drove it just 2-3 times a week; now, I'm a bean-pole. After a few months I noticed: for the first and only time in my life, I actually had muscles in my arms! My wife was quite impressed. They went away pretty quickly after I sold the truck. The other vehicles I have with manual steering really don't take that much muscle, even at low speeds.
Ethanol: I've had issues with older rubber fuel hose and with some rubber components in a 90's-era Holley 4 barrel. Easy enough to remedy. Certainly if you didn't drive the car much and the gas had to sit for months, you're asking for trouble. I drive mine too much for that to be a problem. We can get ethanol-free gas fairly easily around home, but it's expensive. I tried a tank in my old Ford and saw no difference at all: same power, same mileage, it started no better or worse. Invaluable for a lawn mower, though.
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Bryan
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