Thank you all for injecting some sanity into my dream world.
I suspect my biggest concern is that I would grow weary with having had to give up the ability for slow starts and nice steady cruising speeds, which are the elements that "modern" technology brings to the table... but then I lose the neat things about PW that I like. (Smell, sounds, simplicity, etc, etc.)
Sigh.
It's never cut and dried, is it?
Andre