If it's going to be a cruiser or everyday driver then power steering is really nice. If it feels like it's on ice then you have something wrong. Power steering shouldn't have any problems or drive like crap and if it does then something must not be right. Now if it's going to be a small light car or strip car then no power steering is fine. I have no power steering on my 66 and as long as I keep skinny wheels and tires in the front it's fine but get's real tiring with a manual, no AC, NO interior at all just a bucket set with barely any foam basically. I am converting it to power steering once it's out of the tranny shop because on both sides of the dampener there are round plates on each side of it with bolts through it that hold the steering shaft or whatever it is called to the dampener and then to the steering box. Well only ONE bolt is holding my whole steering on. Not safe and not fixable because the plates are all eaten up and nothing left of them and only half the dampener are there. I am getting a whole new steering pump, box, column, bracket to mount to motor, etc for 250. But anyways what I am trying to get at is p/s is much more comfortable IMO, especially on those slow and tight turns and you can relax more. If you have no A/C like me it's even better.