Accelerator cable or rod?

[gator2511]

My 72 K10 has a throttle cable setup by Lokar and it broke this afternoon after only about 6 months of use. I had a bad feeling about this and I put some strong string in the glove box "just in case". Man I'm glad I did. I tied the string off to the carb linkage and ran it through the firewall using the same hole as the cable. It was weird running the carb with my right hand and steering with the left. Anyway, I bought and modified a cable set up for a mid 80's chevy and its on and working now. I still would rather have a mechanical or rod type linkage to the carb cause I think it looks stronger. Have any of you converted yours or am I the only one that doesn't like the cable? What kind of reliability are you getting out of your accel cable?