Scooter's Roofing
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lmao, I know the feeling!!!!! my first real hot rod I built from the ground up, I wasn't 100% done with the brakes... a buddy of mine was like "let's take a ride in it!"
I'm like "there's no brakes", so he pumps the brake pedal a few times and the pedal gets firm and he's like "look brakes!"
well, when you're just putting around, pumping the brakes a few times to get pressure is easy, but when you're coming up on a stop sign by a school - after getting on it - with cars coming from your left and right, instinct is to stab the pedal!
luckily it slowed just enough and I had a good "hole" to turn into traffic and the car was able to handle that corner at the speed we hit it at!
every project I built after that had brakes as top priority!
glad you're alright, like I said, I know the feeling. We can laugh about it now, but it could have been bad
I'm like "there's no brakes", so he pumps the brake pedal a few times and the pedal gets firm and he's like "look brakes!"
well, when you're just putting around, pumping the brakes a few times to get pressure is easy, but when you're coming up on a stop sign by a school - after getting on it - with cars coming from your left and right, instinct is to stab the pedal!
luckily it slowed just enough and I had a good "hole" to turn into traffic and the car was able to handle that corner at the speed we hit it at!
every project I built after that had brakes as top priority!
glad you're alright, like I said, I know the feeling. We can laugh about it now, but it could have been bad