I still use many of the older flies too. The Adams (with upright, hackle-tip wings) is one of my favorites. The Pheasant Tail is my "go-to" nymph, although I do have to admit a preference for the "newer" flashback version. And I am an absolute soft-hackle addict. I love the partridge & orange, peacock & starling, purple & snipe and my all time favorite soft hackle, the Tupp's Indispensable, although unlike the original pattern which consists of urine stained dubbing from a goat's testicles, I prefer to tie mine with some much more easily available (and less offensive) pink superfine dubbing.
My one wish is that when I die my wife doesn't sell my fishing stuff for what I told her I paid for it...