Bumper Sticker of the Week!
I spotted this sticker on a (disc brake-equipped) Nissan pickup in the parking lot of the San Jose North Pick-Your-Part during my last trip to California.
Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.
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Really.... was it necessary to make us click "more" to read: While I do believe that drum brakes want to kill us all— I’m already hating the four-wheel/single-circuit drums on my ’66 Dodge A100 van— I still admire the cryptic sentiment expressed here. Of course not. You're under editorial pressure to put in extended entries to pad your page views. All you're doing is wasting your readers' time and treating them like they are here to serve you and not vice versa. Please stop wasting our time and insulting our intelligence. We know the game.
The sooner I get my rear end out of this apartment and out to a junk yard to salvage the disks from an Escort GT, to put on my 93 Wagon, the happier I will be. Been wanting to do it a long time. The brakes on this car suck. Thank god it's a manual and I can downshift when needed.
This Bumper Sticker was handed out to participants on Martin Swig's old La Carrera Nevada car rally (which he keeps threatening to run again some day.) A distance driving event in the American outback of Nevada, using pre-1955 cars only. I have one of these stickers on the wall of my workshop, as I participated in 2000, co-driving a 1954 Jaguar XK-120 (ironically the machine which introduced disc brakes to the world in C-type form.) Swig's explanation of the sticker is that people were nicer drivers when braking was unpredictable.
Best bumper sticker ever: "GET THE MULLET". A particularly cruel attempt at leading the young and uninformed down the garden path to hell...