[DeTomaso] Moving the E-brake handle to the driver's side

Sat Aug 29 15:44:35 EDT 2015

Here you would not be allowed to remove the parking brake, or replace it with a hydraulic line lock. The function of it is tested on the annual or bi-annual safety inspection.

Thomas

> 29 aug 2015 kl. 20:50 skrev Will Kooiman <will.kooiman at gmail.com>:
> 
> I removed the e-brake to allow me to fit my passenger¹s seat.
> 
> I don¹t have an e-brake yet.  I didn¹t miss it before, so maybe I won¹t
> use one.
> 
> My wife has an electric e-brake in her Porsche.  I don¹t like it.
> 
> My Cobra has a chrome e-brake from a Jag.  That¹s one possible source for
> the lever, if you want to do something other than the Pantera black
> plastic handle.  The Cobra replica market can provide new reproductions.
> 
> You could even mount it in the same general location, but perhaps move it
> inward enough to allow enough room for the passenger¹s seat.
> 
> On 8/29/15, 1:15 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of thomas"
> <detomaso-bounces at poca.com on behalf of thomas at hax.se> wrote:
> 
>> Correct, and It also allows you to install a wider seat on the passenger
>> side. I replaced the worn down wrinkle leather seats in my GT5 with the
>> same type seats as in the Guara from BF Torino.
>> 
>> Roland Jäckel said that these seats would not fit a car with the parking
>> brake on the passenger side.
>> 
>> Thomas
>> 
>>> 29 aug 2015 kl. 18:40 skrev Mike Thomas <mbefthomas at comcast.net>:
>>> 
>>> Good point, thanks Julian.  Just brainstorming things at this point.  It
>>> looks like the set up they put in the 9000-series cars also had a more
>>> slender profile than earlier design, not taking up so much room
>>> side-to-side.
>>> 
>>> Mike
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Julian
>>> Kift
>>> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 9:27 AM
>>> To: Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com>; De Tomaso List
>>> <detomaso at poca.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Moving the E-brake handle to the driver's side
>>> 
>>> The 9000 series later cars with the handbrake on the driver side have it
>>> relocated much further forward, in front of the seat and the console is
>>> modified to accommodate it. It is a different assembly altogether,
>>> although
>>> you might be able to replicate it with some custom cables and existing
>>> parts. It seems a lot of work, how often do you sue your handbrake?
>>> Mine has
>>> been removed altogether and I never miss it!
>>> Julian
>>>> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 08:41:04 -0700
>>>> From: asajay at asajay.com
>>>> To: detomaso at poca.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Moving the E-brake handle to the driver's side
>>>> 
>>>> Just my opinion mind you, but I wouldn't do it.  At least in my
>>>> Pantera, there is NO room on the drivers side of the console.  There
>>>> is so little it's hard for me to get my seat belt through there.  Why
>>>> would you want to move it?
>>>> 
>>>> Asa  Jay
>>>> 
>>>> Asa Jay Laughton - W7TSC, MSgt, USAFR, Retired &  Shelley Marie
>>>> Spokane, WA
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>>>> 
>>>>> On 8/29/2015 8:13 AM, Mike Thomas wrote:
>>>>> As part of my restoration planning, I've been coming up with a short
>>>>> list of mods that I could have done that "just make sense".  Why
>>>>> they located the e-brake handle on the far side of the console where
>>>>> it's not that easy to reach has always been a puzzle to me - probably
>>>>> a
>>> seat clearance issue.
>>>>> Don't the later cars, GT5-S, have the brake on the driver's side of
>>>>> the console?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Since I'm going to have the car down to a bare shell at that point,
>>>>> I can't think it would be that hard to re-engineer it to the other
>>>>> side with everything out of the way: some fabrication work and
>>>>> reverse the hardware under the car.  Has anybody done such a mod?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mike Thomas
>>>>> Pres., Panteras Northwest
>>>>> Yellow '74 #6328
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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