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<blockquote data-quote="gandydancer" data-source="post: 422643" data-attributes="member: 9310"><p>My one roll-away wasn't in a package car. I left my Nissan p/u in my driveway with a loaf of bread on the front seat and the rear window slid open. Some raccoons got inside and had quite a party until one of them touched the pull-and-twist parking brake. *bang* They had an exciting ride down the driveway and across the street and through my neighbor's retaining wall.</p><p> </p><p>Thing was, that kind of parking brake was why I had bought that make of p/u. I too drive in San Francisco and had learned to use my Datsun's knife-switch-and-button hand brake to avoid rolling back when I had to stop a stickshift in upslope traffic, and when the doors fell off that p/u all the other brands only had the foot-loaded-hand-release version of a parking brake. I thought the pull-and-twist would be an ok replacement for the knife-switch version, but by the time the raccoons took their joyride I had several times had to dive for the footbrake when I'd leaned into the Nissan and an a slight touch from an errant elbow or package had touched the pull-and-twist's handle and released it. Along with the much inferior set of hooks for tying down a load it was the strongest source of my impression that even Japanese car design was going in the toilet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gandydancer, post: 422643, member: 9310"] My one roll-away wasn't in a package car. I left my Nissan p/u in my driveway with a loaf of bread on the front seat and the rear window slid open. Some raccoons got inside and had quite a party until one of them touched the pull-and-twist parking brake. *bang* They had an exciting ride down the driveway and across the street and through my neighbor's retaining wall. Thing was, that kind of parking brake was why I had bought that make of p/u. I too drive in San Francisco and had learned to use my Datsun's knife-switch-and-button hand brake to avoid rolling back when I had to stop a stickshift in upslope traffic, and when the doors fell off that p/u all the other brands only had the foot-loaded-hand-release version of a parking brake. I thought the pull-and-twist would be an ok replacement for the knife-switch version, but by the time the raccoons took their joyride I had several times had to dive for the footbrake when I'd leaned into the Nissan and an a slight touch from an errant elbow or package had touched the pull-and-twist's handle and released it. Along with the much inferior set of hooks for tying down a load it was the strongest source of my impression that even Japanese car design was going in the toilet. [/QUOTE]
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