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
