Obviously, you never drove one.
You know....I still have 4 cars with carburetors.
and without rack and pinion steering. (and 3 modern American cars too.)
These are classics that only people who don't need cars that can parallel park themselves should handle. Just because one is soft and squeamish about driving these historical marvels, that dosen’t these classics any less wonderful. Though if I were to bury one for posterity, it would have preferred the 57 354 Hemi Chrysler or 345 Hemi Desoto.
Well, when I was a teenager I drove my parents’ ‘58, which was quite similar to the ‘57 (small differences included minor tailight and headlight details.) Aside from the aforementioned rust problems (I enjoyed seeing the ground pass by through the small hole in the floor board to the left of the gas pedal), it was a nice car for the times. It had the 318 V8 which, in modified form, still powered Dodge Ram trucks until very recently. And a push-button automatic transmission, which worked flawlessly.
The family drove it for 8 years (an eternity back then) and about 140K miles. On my advice, my parents traded it in 1966 for a new Dodge Charger with the 383 4-barrel :)