Lever for making tight turns?

[john_j]

Just a thought caused by the thread on rear disc brakes - in the UK the lever on the floor between the seats is called a handbrake, hence if you want to make the car point the other way quickly you do a handbrake turn (dip the clutch, swing the wheel over, pull the lever up)
What to americans do - is it an emergency brake turn?

 

[JamesWilson]

I've heard it called a "Moonshiner's turn", in my youth:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moonshiner%27s_turn

but I don't know how common, or widely understood that would be.

I suspect handbrake turn would be understood more....

 

[Randy Forbes]

Someone at an autocross caught me on film doing a handbrake turn in my Healey. I thought I had those pictures online and could post them; must be on my computer at home. I'll try to get them up on the web...

 

[Bruce Bowker]

Current proper name is :

Rear expansion plate or caliper pressure directional movement enhancement.

 

[john_j]

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Rear expansion plate or caliper pressure directional movement enhancement.

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I wouldn't like to have the co-driver shouting that at me as I headed towards a hairpin!

 

[GregW]

I have heard that some of the rumrunners (during prohibition) set up two hand brakes, one for each rear wheel. They would lockup the inside wheel in a turn to out maneuver the police. I don’t know how effective if was.

 

[Bruce Bowker]

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Rear expansion plate or caliper pressure directional movement enhancement.

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I wouldn't like to have the co-driver shouting that at me as I headed towards a hairpin!

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It does cause problems but if we all are not politically correct... well what can one say.

Some drivers are also referring to this as MREPCPDME. And I made a huge mistake it should be

Manual rear expansion plate or caliper pressure directional movement enhancement.

 

[Editor_Reid]

In Anti-Terrorist Driver Training we called them "bat turns," as in something Batman would do.

 

[Randy Forbes]

Here's a "captured" handbrake turn at a 1985 SCCA Autocross. Use course worker position for reference /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif

The "obstacle" was the large cone just to the left of the car in the second picture (also barely visible just forward of the left fender mirror in the first picture).

 

[tahoe healey]

A mini Sideshow? (refer to circular street racing late at night in any big city)

 

[Ed_K]

I have always heard this type of turn called a
" bootleg " turn, here in the south.

 

[GregW]

I thought the “bootleg” was what James Garner always did in “The Rockford Files”

 

[swift6]

From what I have read, the "bootleg" turn, was named for the "bootleggers" (moonshine runners). Or maybe they got the name because they used the turn. That's a whole new question though.

They used the turn to reverse direction quickly on narrow roads in order to lose the revenuers when they had to make multipoint turns because they didn't know how to "bootleg", or to force the revenuers off the road because they didn't want to have a head on collision. heck of a way to play chicken!

There has to be someone close to the moonshine museums down n Georgia that could learn more. Or at least tell me if I'm full of hooey.

Oh, and I remember Rockford doing it in reverse most of the time.


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