Cruising your stocker

[Flathead41ford]

I’m curious how well your original, or lightly modified flathead powered cars cruise at “high” speeds. I don’t mean 90MPH on the turnpikes, but those 55-60 MPH country roads or freeways. I recently bought a restored 39 Ford Deluxe Tudor that was kissed pretty good in the rear. The car runs fantastic, drives, shifts and stops well. The brakes need to be re adjusted but that doesn’t matter at this point. I’m looking forward to using this as my daily this summer but the last original flathead Ford I drove was my 41 Tudor that was pretty tired and that was 25 years ago. My everyday driving consists of 35MPH roads so needless to say, I’m not worried about those. But, I would like to drive the car to the Blue Suede Cruise in Norwalk which is about a 60 mile drive using side roads. Some of those roads are 55 which I don’t think should be a problem but I have no experience so maybe I’m wrong. The car has a stock 85 horse flattie with 3.78s in the rear and 6.00X16 tires. Is 55-60 out of this car asking too much? I have a Mercury 255 that will end up in it eventually. There are also a pair of Columbias in the corner in unknown condition that would be nice but none of that stuff will be happening this year.