Like Vikki mentioned, her car will only be doing "slow" leisurely driving. It all depends on how you intend to use the car. Daily driver? Definitely disc upgrade if funds allow. Just on the weekends or seasonally, sticking with drums would be fine. I drove mine all through highschool and as a daily driver up till '97 with manual drum brakes...now that I have discs up front, I wonder how the hell I didn't rear end somebody all those years of driving