brake blunder :-(
AND NOW AN ANNOYING story from the old days.
Naval Station Treasure Island, 68-69, going to Navy ET-A (electronics) school. I "fell in" with a new friend who later would be the original owner of.......and sell me.......my 70 RR 440-6 car. At the time he had a 65 Chevelle with a 350/ 4 speed and Ralley wheels swapped from a nearly new wrecked 67 Camaroo
Anyway he HAMMERED that thing, much to my delight. One day, He and I and a friend of mine exited TI towards San Francisco. He would the @#$%^%@ out of the thing in 1st (220 low, 3.08 rear) and slammed it into second. WHAM!!! BLAM!!! NO THANK!!! YOU!!! MAN!~!!
So we slid (rear locked) into one of the bridge emergency cutouts and jacked it up onto the spare tire, and pulled the rear cover (10 bolt) and fished out the pieces. Some funny "clips" fell out. Neither I nor my buddy knew what THEY were. Put it together, here comes the tow. He has a NICE big rubber bumper. We tell him "We think it will roll" and he is going to push us off the bridge.
So he gets us up to a "safe" speed and we take the first long, sloping ramp off the bridge, and NOW BOTH REAR TIRES are rubbing the fenders because the C CLIP AXLES have come out!!!! Bear in mind this is a 65 BEFORE THERE WERE tandem brake systems!!!!!
George taps the brakes, and thought really really REALLY fast (he is no dummy) and HIT THE LINELOCK and stabbed the brake just enough to get pressure into the front and to hold it. So the car finally slowed and stopped at the bottom of the ramp.
George, the "guilty party" at the Treasure Island amateur radio club. No idea when this was taken, as he went to "A" school at some point and later, when I met him he was an E-5 going to "B" school
George after he learnt hiz'n lesson. This was taken in 70 when the car was new. We had been to Lions where he trophied in PS That is the one car I wish to hell I still had, although the original 440 "left us"
I was stationed at NAS Miramar, San Diego, he was on a ship in port at Long Beach
AND NOW AN ANNOYING story from the old days.
Naval Station Treasure Island, 68-69, going to Navy ET-A (electronics) school. I "fell in" with a new friend who later would be the original owner of.......and sell me.......my 70 RR 440-6 car. At the time he had a 65 Chevelle with a 350/ 4 speed and Ralley wheels swapped from a nearly new wrecked 67 Camaroo
Anyway he HAMMERED that thing, much to my delight. One day, He and I and a friend of mine exited TI towards San Francisco. He would the @#$%^%@ out of the thing in 1st (220 low, 3.08 rear) and slammed it into second. WHAM!!! BLAM!!! NO THANK!!! YOU!!! MAN!~!!
So we slid (rear locked) into one of the bridge emergency cutouts and jacked it up onto the spare tire, and pulled the rear cover (10 bolt) and fished out the pieces. Some funny "clips" fell out. Neither I nor my buddy knew what THEY were. Put it together, here comes the tow. He has a NICE big rubber bumper. We tell him "We think it will roll" and he is going to push us off the bridge.
So he gets us up to a "safe" speed and we take the first long, sloping ramp off the bridge, and NOW BOTH REAR TIRES are rubbing the fenders because the C CLIP AXLES have come out!!!! Bear in mind this is a 65 BEFORE THERE WERE tandem brake systems!!!!!
George taps the brakes, and thought really really REALLY fast (he is no dummy) and HIT THE LINELOCK and stabbed the brake just enough to get pressure into the front and to hold it. So the car finally slowed and stopped at the bottom of the ramp.
George, the "guilty party" at the Treasure Island amateur radio club. No idea when this was taken, as he went to "A" school at some point and later, when I met him he was an E-5 going to "B" school
George after he learnt hiz'n lesson. This was taken in 70 when the car was new. We had been to Lions where he trophied in PS That is the one car I wish to hell I still had, although the original 440 "left us"
I was stationed at NAS Miramar, San Diego, he was on a ship in port at Long Beach
