Still get as much pleasure driving as I always have done. I tend to avoid motorways, not due to fear or vulnerability (I ride bikes after all) but I find them very boring and get annoyed at idiot middle lane hoggers.
I remember as a youth, really enjoying driving from Worcester to Cambridge in my old Mk3 Spitfire on the old A roads. Interestingly the route took me through Higham Ferrers - little did I think I'd be living very close some 30 years later. I still take the same route when I go back to Worcester and have the same enjoyment - Daventry, Southam, Stratford etc. and the same the other direction to Cambridge - KImbolton, St Neots etc. Great little A roads, with some lovely twisties to keep you on your toes. Mind you, I don't treat the roads like a race track, and I'm usually sticking pretty close to the speed limit. I'm sure if I wanted to hoon around at top speed I might get frustrated at other drivers, and be unable to avoid the odd pothole but I don't. In fact the only frustration is when I come across a bunch of old duffers, stuffed into lycra, cycling two abreast with a 3 mile queue of snail pace traffic behind them as everyone is far too scared to ovetake them.
Due to obvious reasons I'll never sell my Morgan, but I'm really glad I got rid of the old Corsa and replaced it with the GT. Sometimes I wish I didn't have to keep fettling (the GT heater matrix has just started leaking), but having experienced the detached and sanitised version of motoring provided by modern cars such as the Golf Hybrid, I'm very glad I have something older and a bit more visceral. As I said in another thread, bar the 356, you can keep your Porsches - again, all a bit too sanitised and safe for me (although I will admit the GT3RS was a bit of a hooligan at times).
