The latest installation with our 1960 Corvette shows how to connect the C1’s parking brake cable to Wilwood rear brakes.

The parking brake, or emergency brake, is usually attached to a car’s rear wheels. On vehicles with rear drum brakes, the parking brake is usually attached with cables to the rear brakes, as ...

Say goodbye to the mechanical parking brake and the levers, ratchets, cables and adjusters that go with it. Electrically operated parking brakes are starting to replace mechanical systems, which ...

As Auto Service Professional also points out, this drastically reduces the amount of real estate the parking brake system takes up, since you don't have cables leading away from the caliper to a ...

A: The electric parking brake is basically an electric motor that pulls up on the parking brake cable. You would need to have a total failure of the electrical system — as well as the battery ...

The terms parking brake and emergency brake are used pretty much interchangeably. And indeed, this secondary cable-operated braking system can be used to slow or halt a vehicle in the unlikely ...

The Problem: A number of the 2010 Ford Ranger compact trucks could have the parking-brake cable come disconnected from the right rear brake actuator in cold weather. The result would be parking ...

Two curious German police officers decided to experiment with their car's electronic parking brake while driving. The result has people talking.

As it turns out, the original 1960 Corvette parking brake cable, handle, and lever were easily adapted to our modern parking brake cables.