I guess our old Merz-Daimler 240D would be the exception to the hi-perf
& powerful rule for cars with this hand brake config.

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of H R
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:46 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: emergency brake doesn't work well?

...As an example, some high performance cars are enabled with two brake
systems on each rear wheel. Each wheel has one disk brake for normal
driving/braking, and one minature drum brake, about 1/3 the size of the
vanagon rear drum brake. The mini drum brake is only activated by cable,
as emergency/hand brake. Cars with those brake systems are usually quite
powerful...