Well I'm not sure if the story is good, but the outcome was!Glad
the chevelle & you survived to ride another day. And you are about
the first person I ever heard say that a stock chevelle "handled".
I'l agree to adequate :D .
On 4/26/05, Mark Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm a newbie to the list, but one of my favorite parts of being on a list to
> hear stories of experience with your cars, a car or vehicle related. I can
> start by sharing mine.
>
> My second car was a 1971 chevelle convertible. I paid 2,000 for it back in
> 1980. I drove the snot out of it. Well my story was me hanging out with a
> coworker. He was small of statue, but very outgoing. Anyways, my car has
> ps, and pdb on it. We are just doing some driving around in the hills in N.
> calif. The day was gorgeous, so the top was down. The car was gold
> metallic with black stripes and a bubble hood. (cowl hood without the
> flap). It had a 327 vette motor in it connected to a turbo 350 at.
> corvette rallys finished out the package. It was a nice and fun car.
>
> Anyway, back to the story. We are crusing up the hills in fremont just
> looking at nice houses and chatting. Not buying anything, but just enjoying
> the ride. We were driving up a windy road to the homes and then back down.
> One the way down, my brakes got too hot and stopped working. I'm going down
> this 2 lane road and it dead ends into a busy street. So as I'm coming
> down, my buddy is being his usual chatter box type self. We are about 3
> turns from the end and picking up speed pretty quickly. I know that the
> last street before the deadend has some houses on it and it's long. I lean
> over to my buddy and tell him to put on his seatbelts because we have no
> brakes. He instantly stops talking and turns bright white...
>
> I'm running about 40 - 45 mph, maybe faster. Looking at the speedo wasn't
> too high on my priority list. So I have the end of the road in sight. It's
> a T at the end of the road. My emergency brake isn't working properly, so
> that's out So I come to the last street before the Tee and hang a HARD
> right. Luckily with downshifing and a little uphill in the road, I roll to
> a stop. It takes about 10 minutes for my heart to stop racing, but it
> finally comes down.
>
> Thank goodness our cars handle. It would have really sucked to smash my car
> into another one or into a stationary object...
>
> Thomas
>
>
--
Rick Schaefer
72 TPI El Camino
