clare at snyder.on.ca wrote:

On 14 Jan 2006 17:56:13 -0800, jim rozen
wrote:


In article , Jeff Wisnia says...


As a matter of fact, with the first car I ever owned* I didn't need to
worry about burst brake lines.

I still own and drive two vehicles like that.

Each one has two-wheel mechanical brakes.

Jim

My old '49 beetle had 4 wheel cable operated brakes - hand brake
applied all 4 through the same set of cables.

My '28 Chevy National had 4 wheel rod operated brakes, external band
on the rear, with a hand operated internal expanding brake on the
rear. To stop real fast you used both to keep the relatively
lightweight drums from distorting.

The emergency brake in the '55 Chrysler convertible the first SWMBO and
I used to run sports car rallies in had a single cable operated drum
brake just behind the xmission to snag the prop shaft.

The teams in the real sporty cars laughed when we showed up in that
monster, but changed their tunes when we started taking home trophies.

I still have a photo of that car, and the motor driven Curta Calculator
rig I built just for rally computing.

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/temp/rallying.html

Jeff
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Jeffry Wisnia

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented."