A wide brake pedal triggered memories of learning to drive #TBT
Posted By RichC on October 24, 2024
It has been a long time since I remembered when stopping quick required a second foot on the brake pedal, but this photo from a 1964 (Camaro I think) reminded me of that wider pedal
(think the 1973 Caddy had the two-foot pedal too?)
Back when yours truly was learning to drive, our family 4-door 1967 Ford Custom 500 came with manual drum brakes. There were times as a teenage “want to drive faster” new driver that I remember using heavy two-footed pressure to stop this boat-ish couple tons of steel with a stock 289 cu in Windsor V8 (the first engine I rebuilt). This was our second car (MomC’s daily driver) and the one I learned to drive using and the one I took my driving test in.
It was also my grandparents car before they passed away in 1969 and 1970 and the car we used to tow our Yellowstone camping trailer and Fiberpile sailboat.
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