Thursday, November 21, 2013
Random memory about brakes
During the '60s and '70s I lived in Okla, Kansas and Ohio. In all three states I owned and drove a lot of old cars, foreign and domestic. All old cars have problems, but the old cars in Okla had ONE specific problem that was rare in the other states.
Okla cars had bad brakes. Nearly all of them needed pumping and failed often. It's amazing that anyone survived!
If this was a real difference, why? Was it the dust? Did Okla gas stations distribute inferior brake fluid? It's not a matter of inspection; Okla had a yearly inspection law and the other two states didn't. Admittedly the inspection law was easy to 'work around', but still it must have been used honestly on some occasions.
Hmm. I just admitted that I always cheated on inspection, didn't I?
¶ 5:10 PM 
