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Originally Posted by fixmeplease
Mechanical brakes that use rods are decent. if they use cables, not so much as they stretch out which changes braking.
Once you have a car with power brakes, you will never want one without them, trucks even more so. Ive had my share of both.
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I've only heard of cable brakes before.
Your power brake comment is especially true of hydraulic (instead of pneumatic) powered brake boosters...my 78 Lincoln has one that operates off the power steering pump....It will lock up the the wheels with much less effort than the vacuum based systems in modern cars...one could argue you loose road feel, but when a deer or turkey hoops in front of your car when you're doing 45mph and you don't feel like you need to brace yourself to push the pedal hard enough to stop in time you come to appreciate it.