Car Porn

In just about any other car I'd say yes, but in a Rolls...

The last Rolls-Royce to have a 4-wheel drum brakes was a 1991 or 1992 Phantom VI (the car below)...



Commercial trucks with air brakes have drums!

 

I think that's the tulip-wood bodied Hispano-Suiza

 

It showed up on my computer - I'll try again

 

The fastback on the Monte Carlo wasn’t as radical as the Grand Prix’s was. The Chevies were very successful, the Pontiacs not so much.

 

I was curious on production numbers, looks like the Monte Carlo SS Aero Coupe over its run totaled 6052, and the Grand Prix 2+2 Aero Coupe was 1 year only at 1225 total.

 

I believe it could be (it does have a wood body that could very well be tulip) but not sure.

 

Yeah, power assist drums, via the air brakes.
That disc conversion probably makes that car a lot more enjoyable to drive, because they're not worrying about stopping their extremely rare, extremely expensive 3-ton behemoth using a set of drums with no power assist.
I've gone through the entire braking system (4 wheel drums, no power assist) on my '69 D100 and replaced or rebuilt everything on it. It stops very nicely for normal braking, but panic stops can still be a little hairy, and it only weighs around 3500lbs.

 

My GTO had 4-wheel drums and no power assist (no power steering either)...stopping (or getting it slowed enough for the turn off at the end of the 1/4 mile) was umm...entertaining. After a couple of back-to-back runs, I'd have both feet on the brake, and be pulling on the steering wheel. The car was 3400 lbs, and crossing the line between 105 and 110 mph. I would give 4-wheel drums with no assist a solid 8.5 on the sphincter scale...

 

A couple of years ago, when I had first gotten the '69, I was driving along on a back road doing maybe 45-50 and I had a kid and a dog chase a ball out into the road in front of me. That was one hell of a heart-starter, panic-stopping with drums & no power assist. That event was actually what inspired me to strip everything down and rebuild it all, because I almost wasn't able to stop in time and was starting the internal debate of which ditch to steer for.