When coming home at night (usualy around 9:30pm) in my neighborhood I take a 90 degree turn from one street to another at about 15 mph and while I have to use both hands I'm easily able to take the 90 degree turn and I'm a 130 lb weakling.
You should only have to turn the key back one possition while it's running, wait a sec for the engine to stop and then move one click forward. If you move the key past that one click you turn the starter. Not I've EOCed in a '94 Chrysler LHS (same as Concord/New Yorker) and that is a big car and I was able to turn the wheel although a bit heavy.
I would simply double check, you need to be able to turn the wheel with the engine off. What if you ran out of gas going down a mountain? You would just fly over the edge.
And with the power brakes, even without the power I have enough to hold the car at a light on an incline even after I exhausted my 1 or 2 stop braking reserve.
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