[MARTINSR]

It's funny how different cars can be. On the peddle pressure, OMG my Rambler stops so damn fast it's crazy! I have had a few panic stops and was blown away at how well they worked, disc brake like, I am not kidding you! My son's daily driver, a 63 Ford Falcon, that is a different story, the stock brakes suck! I plan on helping him putting some discs on that car!

And honestly it's more about driving style than the car. I spent a bunch of time studying "hypermiling" for saving fuel, I then studied travel time and what a difference it makes if you drive fast and hard using those modern brakes and I found that we drive that way because all the cars around us are, we drive like fools BECAUSE cars drive so much better today than years ago. It has transformed the average driver into a very bad driver pushing the limits. I began driving leaving more room and avoiding putting my foot on the brake as this costs you fuel, and putting your foot on the gas peddle because that costs you fuel too! I was driving a very well handling fast and amazing braking car at the time (Ford SHO) and found that driving more conservatively got me there just as fast! I proved this with study. I drive cars today from $150K 400hp Mercedes to my 90hp Rambler in the same way! Unless I am going to be having fun out on a windy road with my Gran Sport (set up with discs, swaybars, urethane bushing, quick ratio box, etc.), then I am having fun. But to drive that Gran Sport across town or down the highway, I drive it the same as I do my Rambler.

The body shop were I work does about 3.5 million dollars in sales with a lot full of modern cars with abs brakes. People have adjusted themselves to driving to leave such a small amount of room. They honestly are rear ending cars as much as they did in 1960!

Brian