With this insight, the crew quickly discovered that the brake master cylinder push rod was mis-adjusted!

Here, Craig Wiland reaches under the dash to quickly fix the problem.

Interestingly, at least four other people present at Corvair College said they had had the very same thing happen to them at some point. I had never heard of this problem before. Live and learn!

I was just happy that it was such a minor problem and so easy to fix.