Here is a clean Spitfire that seemed to have some brake problems.  In reality, it had some adjustment problems.  The driver’s side rear brake drum was dragging, causing someone out there to shake his head muttering, “No way in *&%$ my kid’s first car will be British.”  Channeling Batman, “Not so fast, Joker.”

Take a gander at this brake drum below.  If the web guy (me) was worth anything, you’d actually be gandering at the square-headed adjustment screw on the back, but I didn’t take a picture of it.  So, on the back side of this drum is the adjustment.  Screw it one way and it moves the shoes towards the drum, the other way and it moves them towards the center of the axle and away from the drum.  Real simple.  Well, this one was adjusted too tight.  Which makes one wonder who did that, because they don’t adjust themselves.  No matter, Dean fixed it like he normally does. Problem solved so easily it hardly qualified as a problem.  It was really pretty simple, like the cars tend to be themselves.  When I think they’re not, I point at something and have Dean or Chip explain it, I say “Oh”, and then we’re back to simple.

Here at UK Motorsports, we make owning an old British car an almost reasonable proposition.