Bitchs Brew
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While looking for parts for my 68, being told that a late 68 with a slant 6 and manual drums is a bit of an odd duck. The premise being that most cars were 8's and with power brakes. Is this correct?
not rare, there were 7200 225 slant 6s sold in that model and delivered in 1968. there were 9820 318 notchbacks. and manual drums were common as heck up until 73/74 when everything started switching to power discs.While looking for parts for my 68, being told that a late 68 with a slant 6 and manual drums is a bit of an odd duck. The premise being that most cars were 8's and with power brakes. Is this correct?
Yes, she has not been changed in anyway other than last owner trying to convert the blue interior to black.If it isn't modified, it's pretty rare now
Sadly it was repainted at some point and may have had a vynil top as it is black under repaint. Looks like wide white stripe up the middle rear piece is painted black and has plymouth in sticker letters across it. Brite Blue interior front seat armrest , auto on column. I did not think it anything special, was just alotta fuss of the brakes not being Power when I went for ne MCThe slant six is very common for all A bodies. I have seen very few A bodies with power brakes, and few were ordered with front disc brakes in 68. That makes the mechanical end of your car fairly common. But, the chrome plated vertical bars in the grille indicate the car is a "Win You Over"/ "Success Celebration" 68 Barracuda. The notchback with this package of options would have also had red reflective tape stripe on the deck lid between the tail lights, rocker moldings and painted accent stripes (pin stripes), vinyl top, wood grain steering wheel, deluxe wheel covers, white streak tires, and either a Hurst 3 speed manual floor shift or console automatic. To my knowledge, the chrome plated grille and red reflective tape on the deck lid were only used as part of these special edition Barracudas that came out in the spring. Fastback and convertible Win You Over/ Success Celebration editions were trimmed differently than the coupes. If yours is one of the Win You Over/Success Celebration notchbacks, then it would be rather unique, but still not necessarily rare. Rare would be if it still had all the original package options including the accent stripes that are rarely replicated correctly.
it is a fact that, when properly maintained and adjusted, drum brakes stop better than disc brakes.
Everybody likes to think their junk is rare. Yours ain't.
Our old local place has one and only $28 at that going to fetch it up this morningHave you tried rockauto? They have lote listed.....
Sorry, no, that is not a fact. It's a myth best filed in the same trashbin as "Breaker points are better than electronic ignition!" and "Carburetors are better than fuel injection!" and "Bias-ply tires are better than radials!" and "Leaded gasoline was better!": fun to think about in an old-car fantasy-world kind of way, but not a part of reality.
You don't have to believe me, and you don't have to correct your basic misunderstandings of the matter if you don't want to; if you dig back through old magazines (everything from car mags to Popular Mechanics/Popular Science/Mechanix Illustrated to Consumer Reports) from when disc brakes were becoming widely available as an option, you'll find a lot of "Should your next car have disc brakes?" types of articles where they test a car with drums and the same car with discs. You might find the odd case (an unusually good drum system vs. an unusually poor disc system, that kind of thing) but the overall result is very consistent and it runs in one direction only: the discs are better from the first stop on.
And that's on cars carefully inspected and adjusted exactly just right to make a "fair" comparison. If we ask the question in terms of the real world where drum brakes are usually at least a little out of whack, the discs win even bigger.
Thanks for the clarification Dan. I am just going by what I have heard and read, and my own experience. I admit however that I am no where near as well read as you.
Drum brake systems are usually lighter than discs.