A-Team Corvette

[c4koh]

Just saw this on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjetj8D-hCM

... The A-Team always a great show, and I wonder if Face's 'vette ('84 I think - will check it out) started a very subtle brainwashing for me...

Nice montage - those early C4s do look good when being flung around

[888usa]

Ahh Faces Vette!!
I remember having the toy vette great looking car with that red stripe & always wanted BA's Van.

[Black Magic]

The black wheel centres mark it out as an 84-85. One anomally though, did you notice the handbrake turns? The rear wheels actually stopped turning and we all know that a C4 handbrake wony do that, lol.

[franv8]

Black Magic said:

The black wheel centres mark it out as an 84-85. One anomally though, did you notice the handbrake turns? The rear wheels actually stopped turning and we all know that a C4 handbrake wony do that, lol.

lol! Yep, probably right, although I bet with a new set of shoes and adjusted up it'd lock the wheels properly (I've always found drums more or less always work for handbrakes whereas I've never really found anything with disks on the rear anything more than weedy in the h'brake dept.)

[Buttmonkey Racer]

888usa said:

& always wanted BA's Van.

What? One of these?? We took it Le Mans this year with my C5 on a 'B Team' theme...you had to be there

[Mike Mercury]

Edited by Mike Mercury on Wednesday 30th August 02:51

[Black Magic]

franv8 said:

Black Magic said:

The black wheel centres mark it out as an 84-85. One anomally though, did you notice the handbrake turns? The rear wheels actually stopped turning and we all know that a C4 handbrake wony do that, lol.

lol! Yep, probably right, although I bet with a new set of shoes and adjusted up it'd lock the wheels properly (I've always found drums more or less always work for handbrakes whereas I've never really found anything with disks on the rear anything more than weedy in the h'brake dept.)

I think that I am right in saying that the handbrake on the C4 (as well as the C5) is a seperate drum brake system housed within the central hub of the disc brake. Any one put me right here?

[franv8]

Correct - there is a drum set-up that acts on the inside of the disk. Most probably don't work, since they are manually adjusting, and most of the C4's are autos - so Park gets used instead of the handbrake, at the expense of seized cables!

[c4koh]

Black Magic said:

I think that I am right in saying that the handbrake on the C4 (as well as the C5) is a seperate drum brake system housed within the central hub of the disc brake. Any one put me right here?

On my '91, I think the handbrake's rigged up to the rear calipersI do, but I seem to recall that the earlier C4s have this extra-drum setup that you mention though.

No idea for the C5s though.