Jim Elbrecht wrote:
AZ Nomad wrote:

-snip-
bulll****. There is just about no car and certainly no toyota that
can't be stopped by the brakes in normal working order even if the
engine is under full throttle. The engine isn't 1/20th as powerful as
the brakes.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/test...toyota-9917789

At about 1:21 Brian Ross says "Brakes don't work". At 2:50 he
expands on that a bit. The brakes did not work.

Try it some time. Floor your car with one foot. Stomp on the brakes
with the other foot. The car will stop. If it is a manual tranny,
the engine will stall.

And yet all these folks with runaway cars say [the survivors] they
stood on the brakes to no avail.

Put the car in neutral- then you should be able to stop quickly- then
turn it off. ?Easy to write-- probably takes some control to pull
off in real life.

Jim

I had an experience with a stuck throttle one time. It was on my 55
chevy Bel Air (2door hardtop) :-) . I had it floored in 4th gear and
the flat back road was getting to the bumpy section and I let off the
throttle. It stayed at full throttle. First instinct was to pound on
the throttle a couple times to see if it would release. No good.
Second was to stand on the brakes, well the car was sitting to long and
just when I needed brakes the most, the pedal went to the floor! No
brakes! Next I turned off the ignition and it started slowing down but
still to fast for the upcoming road. I pumped the brakes and the master
cylinder came to life and the car stopped. My buddy following me
finally catches up and runs up to start beating at the open headers to
put out the fire underneath me that I didn't know about. He said that
when I turned off the ignition it looked like the Batmobile with flames
coming out the back. I suppose the gas from the wide open 4 barrel was
ignighting in the hot headers? I unstuck the throttle linkage at the
carb and drove the rest of the way without going past half throttle.