All photos are frame grabs from video below.
After a brief summer respite, we return with this jim-dandy Jam Handy short on friction: Is it friend or foe? It’s a paradox, I tell ya. A real paradox.
We’d offer the suggestion that this could be a subtle slam on the competition’s period braking systems, assuming that’s a Studebaker wagon. Just a thought.
Now this is a proper modern Chevrolet drum brake, and you’ll learn exactly how it works.
This mysterious but most excellent brake material is examined and discussed at length, but not specified by name. Trade secrets and all that, no doubt.
Hanging your car by a single brake cable, or, how to detail the underside of your vehicle without that pesky lift getting in your way.
We’re all in for ripping down a country lane and through a mud puddle in the name of science.
Public domain archival footage courtesy of the Internet Moving Images Archive, in association with Prelinger Archives.
“Friction is the enemy of speed, yet the friend of speed.” A real “frenemy” situation we have here, folks.
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