I thought I'd swap out the brake shoes for the best material there is. Back in the day when I had my 71 hemi ragtop with the 11" drums, The Mopar Gods granted you only one stop at speed before the brakes faded into a distant memory.
In the mid 1980's there was a company called "Velvet Touch Brakes" that made sintered metallic brake shoes for these cars. It was a major improvement. They went out of business in the late 1980's due to the asbestos lawsuits as well as lawsuits from people who didn't understand that metallic brakes had to be initially heated up with some pedal application when you first took the car out for a drive before the brakes would grip fully. If you understood that, you were fine. If not, it took a lot longer to stop.
The guy running Musclecar Brakes was one of their original engineers. We swapped stories for a while before I placed the order. Turns out we knew some of the same people back in the day. Small world!
And just kidding Dave, I was able to decipher your coded messages on the bags into Pig Latin and then translate them into Modern Joysey-speak.
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