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

Stephen steve at snclocks.com
Sat Aug 29 16:18:24 EDT 2015


Whilst your mileage may vary, here is a shot of 5332 on a hillside during a
recent drive with the local Lotus group...  It was happy with just the
e-brake, but I did leave it in 1st gear also.

Stephen Nelson


-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Joseph F.
Byrd, Jr.
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 9:15 AM
To: 'Mike Thomas' <mbefthomas at comcast.net>; detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Moving the E-brake handle to the driver's side

A side question...
Even at its best, would the original e-brake prevent rolling on an incline?
I recall carry around and using a set of chocks

-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Mike Thomas
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 11:13 AM
To: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Moving the E-brake handle to the driver's side

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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