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Originally Posted by Tcoat
If I recall correctly of the 8 or 9 cars that I owned with the foot activated emergency brake only 1 of them actually worked anyway. The rest were either seized solid or the cables were broken. Took me a long time to actually start using the brake when I parked my new cars simply because I just had never done it for a couple of decades.
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Well, up there, I reckon the emergency brake cables were the first to go -
Note that side pipe -
humfrz
Which reminds me of the time I was following a VW hippy bus along route 1 (coast route), in California, going downhill. He was going waaay too fast on the curvy road with a cliff on one side and a steep drop off into the ocean on the other side. I couldn't hardly keep up with him with my MG.
I didn't realize that his brakes (including the emergency brake) had failed, until he opened hid door and started dragging his foot. FINALLY the dumb shit decided to grind his hippy wagon into the cliff and came to a stop, before he went off down the cliff into the ocean -
