Meme Thread

[Hulk]

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[BritKLR]

"If you're not shootin', you should be loadin'. If you're not loadin, you should be movin', if you're not movin', someone's gonna cut your head off and put it on a stick."

- Clint Smith

 

[BritKLR]

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[subzali]

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Took me a second. I’ve never seen that before. Usually the parking brake is a handbrake in the vehicles I have seen. But maybe ford and Chevy used this method? Anyone seen this is in an actual car?

 

[Hulk]

Took me a second. I’ve never seen that before. Usually the parking brake is a handbrake in the vehicles I have seen. But maybe ford and Chevy used this method? Anyone seen this is in an actual car?

My '66 Pontiac GTO had a parking brake like this.

 

[DaveInDenver]

Took me a second. I’ve never seen that before. Usually the parking brake is a handbrake in the vehicles I have seen. But maybe ford and Chevy used this method? Anyone seen this is in an actual car?

Pretty much the standard way GM did it from the 60s into the 90s. My dad's GM Safari mini van has one and it's probably 2004 or so.

Based on my experience at a Discount Tire recently even the t-handle in the dash on my Tacoma is confusing to kids, though. Which is the way my 1956 Plymouth parking brake worked, too.

Is it parking brakes in general? How do most cars do it now, the lever?

 

[DanInDenver]

I’d forgotten as well about the parking brake pedal.
@DaveInDenver Lever or just a button now

 

[BritKLR]

Do the math.......that means by 60, the corner of your garage is full of this s@#$.

 

[simps80]

Took me a second. I’ve never seen that before. Usually the parking brake is a handbrake in the vehicles I have seen. But maybe ford and Chevy used this method? Anyone seen this is in an actual car?

my wife’s 2013 camry still has a foot pedal parking brake
every car we had growing up other than subarus had them

 

[Nemo]

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Add in the floor toggle switch for headlights to turn on / off high beams right below the parking brake.

 

[DaveInDenver]

my wife’s 2013 camry still has a foot pedal parking brake
every car we had growing up other than subarus had them

We had a 1983 Civic and it had the hand lever. Also VW type 3s did too, of course. Didn't realize Toyota used foot brakes, all going and dropping the knowledge bombs. Who'd look at a Camry and think "Well, that's almost the same thing as a 1978 Caprice Classic?"

 

[subzali]

What I meant is that I’ve seen the foot parking brake combined with an automatic transmission, so still three pedals. But I haven’t seen it combined with a manual transmission (4 pedals).

 

[DaveInDenver]

What I meant is that I’ve seen the foot parking brake combined with an automatic transmission, so still three pedals. But I haven’t seen it combined with a manual transmission (4 pedals).

If I'm not mistaken (big assumption) Toyota on the 3rd gen Tacoma put a hand brake lever on the stick shift and a foot pedal on automatics. No idea why but I wonder if trying to fit four pedals under there requires the space afforded by those old land yachts?

 

[FZJ Dave]

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That is what my 1980 F150, 1978 F250, and a few other cars I drove in High School looked like.

 

[Corbet]

Is it parking brakes in general? How do most cars do it now, the lever?

current cars have electric parking brakes. You press a button on the dash or center console.

 

[Crash]

current cars have electric parking brakes. You press a button on the dash or center console.

How do you slow down under control if you lose your hydraulic brakes? I’ve used the park brake lever before in that situation.

 

[Corbet]

How do you slow down under control if you lose your hydraulic brakes? I’ve used the park brake lever before in that situation.

I have not really tested that with my wife’s Outback to answer. But I’m assumings it’s just a parking brake not an emergency brake anymore.

The button activates an electric motor on the rear calipers. So if the car is running they should still operate. But if the car loses power I’m assuming they don’t work.

 

[IoN6]

Would be interesting to see the assumed logic the electronics must have to allow you to use it in an emergency.

Example: try pushing your parking brake button on the freeway.

 

[Crash]

Would be interesting to see the assumed logic the electronics must have to allow you to use it in an emergency.

Example: try pushing your parking brake button on the freeway.

Sort of like Rodney’s party trick to clean a valve body on an automatic transmission. Above 55 put the shift lever into reverse. First time I did it was kinda nerve wracking. Second time too. He said it worked one everything but Rolls Royce.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Sort of like Rodney’s party trick to clean a valve body on an automatic transmission. Above 55 put the shift lever into reverse. First time I did it was kinda nerve wracking. Second time too. He said it worked one everything but Rolls Royce.

Is this a thing? Never heard of such craziness. Google Fu engaged.