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"I guess it depends on what you consider a \"comparatively common car\".  Any surviving pre-1950 car is no long relatively common.  They're all rare.  As to the brakes, any car built after at least 1936 with hydraulic brakes stops just fine.  I had one of mine out yesterday in heavy traffic and it stopped in all instances as well as any car really needs to.  A lot of these modern drivers drive so fast and stop so late that they have to stop much shorter then would a better driver.  I even had a '35 Buick with mechanical brakes that stopped adequately, but it wasn't a very fast car either.  Much of that is hype from bad drivers in my opinion.  I had a 66 Chrysler and still have a 64 Buick Wildcat, both with power brakes, that are scarier to stop than the pre-War Buicks with standard hydraulic brakes.  Last, I will say, I don't think any old car is common.  But yes, I agree that the gentleman from \"across the pond\" is correct about street rods in the U.S., and also all the TV shows that push them.  Makes me sick, and I guess that wasn't politically correct, right?\n "
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