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Re: Interesting Car for Sale



> > Unless you use "innovation" to mean "not common", inboard disks were not
> > an NSU innovation. Alfa has used them for decades - looks very strange
> > with "open" wheels: "Look, Ma. No brakes at all!".
> 
> Good place to learn things, the quattro list.  The RO80's design had
> other advantages - you could change pads without taking the wheels
> off.  I suppose Alfa can do this to ...

If memory serves (ha!), the old E-Type Jaguar used inboard brakes, at the 
rear end anyway, and that goes back to (what...? '61...?)