Originally Posted by WildKarrde
It should have been illegal to have such a fast, heavy car equipped with only drum brakes.
Hey, that's the way muscle cars were "back in the day", so to speak. Most of your big-block GTOs, 442, Road Runners and such only had manual 4 wheel drum brakes - power brakes weren't very common back then, much less disc brakes even. Most of those cars were built for one thing, and one thing only - straight line speed. Period. Everything else was secondary (which is a main reason why many of these muscle cars lived a very short life). I know such a thing seems preposterous today (it was even preposterous back then, except we weren't smart enough to know any better). Hell, to some people, if it didn't make your car go any faster it wasn't worth ordering - power steering and brakes, air conditioning and such were for sissies as far as they were concerned.Interesting read about the Pace Car. I had always known about the crash at Indy, but never knew what really happened or why till now. Thanks for sharing.