Re: IML: Close call II/Wake Up Call

[santiam oregon <santiamoregon@xxxxxxxxx>]

living by the skin of your teeth spices up life a bit.  If you want safety, sell all your cars without airbags and lap/shoulder belts and don't even think about riding a motorcycle (helmet or otherwise).

 

PAUL WENTINK <randalpark@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> That brake serves as both a parking brake and an EMERGENCY brake. You 
> should not be driving the car until it is functioning properly. If you 
> lose your service brakes you don't have a back up system. The brake can 
> be easily serviced, and you can get all the parts from Imperial Heaven.
>
> Paul W.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: parrow33@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: sd1957@xxxxxxx
> Sent: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 3:41 pm
> Subject: IML: Close call II
>
>
>
> Today is the day for close calls with
>  Imperial parking brakes! I drove 
> my '61 LeBaron to a friends house to pick him up to go to an East 
> Tennessee AACA meeting and parked in his driveway in front of his 
> attached garage. The '61 has no park and the parking brake is iffy at 
> best but he had a "speed bump" about 20 feet in front of his garage. I 
> parked so that the rear tires were behind the speed bump. I have parked 
> there a hundred times and THOUGHT it was safe. There is no place in 
> east Tennessee that is flat and downhill is his garage. He wanted to 
> show me his latest aquisition, a junk '54 Chevy conv. in his other 
> garage so I went over and looked at it. When we got back to the house 
> the '61 had crossed the speed bump and rolled about six feet into his 
> garage door post. I immediately thought I had lost the grille, bumper, 
> and right eyebrow. The only point of contact was with the eyebrow. The 
> potmetal eyebrow was undamaged! The garage,
>  however, sustained signif 
> icate damage with the post and door frame pushed back about eight 
> inches from the foundation and his door won't close. The Might of 
> Mopars strike again!
>
>  
>
> Jim Payne
>
> '59 LeBaron
>
> '61 LeBaron
>
> '65 Crown Coupe
>
> '65 Crown conv.
>
>
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