hi
I apologize for this not relating directly to TBirds...it came up
in a discussion recently...
Question: what was the first American production car to have
disk brakes as standard equipment???
Responses to this have ranged from the 63 Studebaker Avanti to some
'55 TBirds to 1939 Crosleys!!
Evidence suggests that Dunlop got the patent around 1952 while the
idea itself goes back to almost 1900. Also that Bendix was an early subcontractor.
Anyone with a good history background out there??? Indirectly it relates to Squarebirds in that they COULD have had disks...
thanks!
john - MA
58 Hardtop
I apologize for this not relating directly to TBirds...it came up
in a discussion recently...
Question: what was the first American production car to have
disk brakes as standard equipment???
Responses to this have ranged from the 63 Studebaker Avanti to some
'55 TBirds to 1939 Crosleys!!
Evidence suggests that Dunlop got the patent around 1952 while the
idea itself goes back to almost 1900. Also that Bendix was an early subcontractor.
Anyone with a good history background out there??? Indirectly it relates to Squarebirds in that they COULD have had disks...
thanks!
john - MA
58 Hardtop
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