When you can stop your muscle car confidently, it really changes the driving experience—even with 50-year-old project cars. If your Chevy came with drums like Scott Miller's '65 Chevelle, a front disc ...

We have to give the tried and proven drum brake a lot of credit, as it has gotten the job done since its creation more than a century ago. The downside to drum brakes, however, is simple to understand ...

Despite the well-intentioned goals of the sharpest hometown hot rodders, there seems to be a collective knowledge deficit between what happens at the front brakes and what happens at the rear brakes.

For whatever reasons, whether the technology didn't exist or counting beans was an issue, the braking system installed by the factory on early Chevrolet and GMC pickups isn't exactly the hot ticket ...