I have 1955 buick skylark with some break problems.?

Well one day I was driving along in my town and it happened to be
Be thankful for your mothers day and I was cruising through this parade and to make a long story short , This old lady in a
wheelchair skerted out into the middle of the road and i was going about 25 and she was like 20 feet away. all of a sudden I slamed
on my brakes and they dident stop rite away they just made a
bunch of metal clanking noise and i barged into this old lady sending her sailing into the crowd of ppl with her wheel chair bouncing rite behind her. I figured this all happened because i pumped my brakes to hard with such an old car and the mechanisms just failed. What do you think would be the cause of somthing like this?

You need to re-line (re-shoe) your brakes, and/or get them checked out for fluid leaks.

Leaking fluid will show up during a good visual inspection.

Checking for the need of a relining requires that you remove the wheels, then the Brake drums (The dust is sorta toxic) so you can visually inspect the linings wear. Check the drums for wear (Remaining thickness) and/or ‘hot spots’ (Bluing) too.

Sailing

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