XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: michael.trew@att.net   
      
   On 3/6/2022 0:51, The Real Bev wrote:   
   > On 03/05/2022 02:20 PM, micky wrote:   
   >> In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 04 Mar 2022 19:08:56 -0500, Michael Trew   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>> On 3/4/2022 1:57, The Real Bev wrote:   
   >>>> On 03/03/2022 09:51 PM, Michael Trew wrote:   
   >>>>> On 3/3/2022 17:38, The Real Bev wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Only once -- the very first time I drove down a mountain road --   
   >>>>>> did my   
   >>>>>> brakes get too hot to stop as quickly as I wanted. Lesson learned.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> That's a pretty rare occurrence these days with disc brakes; many cars   
   >>>>> now have rear disc brakes also. When I first drove a car (recently)   
   >>>>> with 4 wheel manual drum brakes, I quickly learned why people   
   >>>>> (especially older drives) teach you to pulse the brakes on steep   
   >>>>> hills.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 1950 Olds 88. Did they even have disks then? I really should have known   
   >>>> better, but I'd never driven a mountain road before. I was lucky.   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't think disc brakes were even an option until the late 60's, but   
   >>> perhaps someone else could be more certain.   
   >>>   
   >>> Out of curiosity, did your Olds have power or manual brakes? I owned a   
   >>   
   >> I had a '50 Olds also. I don't think they came with power brakes. But   
   >> it did stop okay. They did have the possibility of Back-up lights. I   
   >> found some at a junk yard and installed them. And they did have the   
   >> possibility of an automatic headlight dimmer, based on the lights from   
   >> the on-coming car. I only read about that.   
   >   
   > Mine certainly had no power brakes. Drums all the way around. No power   
   > steering either. 8-cylinder engine which I once got up to 100 mph on the   
   > long easy downhill pointing at Huntington (I think) Beach. It felt   
   > squirrelly, as I recall, and I backed off immediately. (100 mph in a   
   > Corolla is perfectly fine.) The car ultimately developed a lot of   
   > problems which I had workarounds for, but I ultimately sold it to a   
   > "fine Cherman VW mechanic" who was sure he could fix it. A friend saw it   
   > at the local wrecking yard a few weeks later.   
   >   
   > My grandma never learned to drive, but she scrubbed the whitewalls until   
   > they looked brand new. She also cleaned the chrome with steel wool. You   
   > guys remember chrome, right? Back when bumpers didn't need to have their   
   > broken plastic covers replaced at $hundreds/each.   
      
   The vehicles that I have with chrome bumpers have rust scattered on   
   parts of the chrome.  I'll have to see if steel wool cleans that up.   
      
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