Exciting Sunday afternoon.

[bad64chevelle]

Yesterday I spent most of the morning/afternoon taking the last few parts out of my parts car. I was cleaning some crap out of the trunk well and i found the electric fans and remembered that I told my buddy that he could use them on his car. I knew he was changing the freeze plugs on it so decided to take a drive up there to see how he was doing. I traded my dad the keys to the Camaro for the keys to the Challenger. He lives up off Broad Street in Trenton, Im pretty sure a few people on here knows how the traffic can be up there with people cutting you off and slamming on the brakes but its no big deal driving through there. Well coming back onto broad street I decided (since there were no cars near me at the time) to let that 440 rip through 1st and 2nd gear. Good times I must say, well i get out of the gas to slow down for the red light and the brake pedal goes to the floor. there was NOTHING! I pumped them a little bit and got enough pressure to lock up the rear tires. Thank god I stopped in time but there was a big problem of getting somewhere and needing to fix my brakes. Well I stopped at the first parking lot I came to which was the Quick Check. Without any luck like usual they had no sort of automotive section like some convenience stores have. Well in the middle of trenton a bright Yellow 73 Challenger sparks ALOT of attention. Luckily my dad was still home and was able to bring me some brake fluid. The front right caliper (which is brand new) has a leak somewhere and drained the whole rear of the reservoir and the rear brakes must not be adjusted correctly. Oh was a joy that was driving a 3800 lbs car with no brakes. Sorry for the long post but it was a pretty exciting hour yesterday.

[enRo]

lol, join the "I GOT NOOO BRAKES" club. That happened to me in my 86 when I did the front brakes... I smelt something awfully familiar while driving through Rockaway in Morris County, it was that of brakes... but it didnt catch my attention until i went to stop going down a steep hill and guess what? NO BRAKES! Ahhhh ... That was fun, I cut the wheel to the right at the stop sign to make the quick right and made a perfect 90* angle and stopped down the road. A few middle fingers offered to me later, I got away unscathed

[bad64chevelle]

ouch yeah its not fun to say the least.

[Tru2Chevy]

Sounds like a good time. I hope all the attention that you got was positive....

- Justin

[bad64chevelle]

haha some was, but if I left the car in that lot for more than 2 mins Im pretty sure it would have been gone.

[Tru2Chevy]

Yea, I could see that happening on some parts of Broad Street.

- Justin

[bad64chevelle]

And for the record I DID NOT crash the car since ive been asked that already haha I should have specified that.

[Ian]

I was driving to high school one morning and the brakes gave out in my camaro. luckily I was able to stop with the parking brake and I managed to get back home without hitting anything

[maroman88]

i lost the brakes on my 92 mustang, got a new master cylinder

i lost the brakes twice in 2 weeks on the 75 mustang, rotted brake lines the 1st time and a bad rubber hose this time lol, its gotta be a ford thing!

[bad64chevelle]

seems like the big 3 have gotten it tho by the looks of who has posted in here.

[WayFast84]

o ****, as soon as my cars runing im getting the brakes done, sponge breaks, breaks squeeking and no e brake...

[bad64chevelle]

lol these brakes were redone less than 3 weeks ago but the freaking caliper is defective and leaked all over the place! that thing had great stopping power too.