When I go from my VE (Or our Sorento) into my VR it feels like it's like night and day difference.
However you don't want whats now a classic car to drive like a modern car, that defeats the point. It's nice to take little trips back in time when you drive them. It reminds you how far we've come.
When I take mine out on weekends I put my mobile in the glovebox, wind the windows down, put a good cassette in and enjoy the car for the time period it came from.
Being a GM product of the late 80's/early 90's they drove.....not the best to begin with and 30+ years down the track it becomes more and more noticable now we are so conditioned to the near perfect driving experience of modern cars.
You pretty much have to accept, the interior is going to rattle, a lot (and that was a problem new it only gets worse with age), the suspension is very crude, the brakes are near non existent by todays standards (they were too small back in the day for the size/weight of the car).
I did the VT upgrade on the VR for the brakes for the sole reason that it was just unsafe in modern day traffic having such inefficient brakes. I used to drive down a 100km/h steep decent freeway in SA and I had to keep about a 10 car legnth distance between myself and the cars in front of me because I knew that if they braked quickly for whatever reason, I'd kill them.
You don't buy classic cars because they drive well, you buy them because they are cool.
Some of my favourite classic cars in existence, are almost undrivable by todays standards, but that would never stop me buying one.