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Brake Time

“My favorite job, however, was the relatively frequent brake system rebuild.”

ONE OF THE BEST THINGS I did fresh out of high school was join a local circle track stock car team. Always into cars, I fancied myself as either a race car driver or a crew chief—I “grew up NASCAR,” after all–but my opportunities to actually work on any car were limited to assisting Dad (or more like providing entertainment for my brother and me) with

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