383 V8 and 39k original miles and it shows! http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/cto/4347913623.html
I always like when they include a shot of the engine compartment. Too bad the photographer is only 3 feet tall.
Drum brakes on a car that big and heavy can be very scary if you are climbing hills and trying to negotiate a curvy road, such as the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. And yes, with a car like this I would be wanting to drive roads like that.
You did mean going down hills, rite? having had many front drum brake cars and trucks living where I am, worrying about my brakes going uphill has never been a concern...... but stopping a freight train down hill has. Oh dear lord, we're going up hill, hope the brakes hold out till we start rolling down hill What he said..........
My favorite thing about 70 Monaco's is the reverse lights up in the quarter panel extensions. Very cool and different.
Well you can't compare disc to drum for better braking, I'll take disc anytime..... especially when going up hill:2_thumbs_up_-_anima
I'd say that, for the most part, anybody who's experienced four wheel drum brakes either up hill or down hill, is over the hill.
Getting up the hill is half the battle, once your old and heading down hill...... who needs brakes, they will just slow you down for the inevitable. Maybe I should have used the brakes going uphill, the crest came faster than I thought!?
Do we know for sure that it's got the standard drum brakes on the front? Could be a grammatical error on the part of the ad poster.... Anyways, the power disc brakes would have been the first thing I checked on the option list. Oooo just a thought. Trying to remember the first vehicle I owned with front disc brakes.... probably the '69 Ford Thunderbird I bought in '74.
