On Sat, 23 May 2015 16:30:38 -0500, in alt.war.vietnam The Stumpster
wrote:

it's far easier to put an emergency brake on a drum system so the non
drive wheels in the rear and my truck has drum brakes on the rear...I
know that chevy seemed to have a minidrumbrake on the center of the rear
rotors on the fancy 4 wh disc jobberdos...and hey, we ain't got round
corners so we don't need cars that can go round a corner

I once had a VW micro bus (yes, I was a hippy) and I split the parking
brake to where I could brake a single wheel. It's kind of a poor
man's 4-wheel drive.

Jones