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Hi,
During December 71 I drove my 71 home to Westminster from Detroit in a sleet/ice storm. I left Detroit about 5:00 pm and got home just in time to go to work Monday morning.
Still on the original Firestone Wide Ovals.
I was too young to know how scared I should have been on the western end of the Pa. turnpike!
Regards,
Alan
Just moved to Ohio and can't believe the swiss cheese cars on the road - very scary. Can't imagine driving swiss cheese with 400HP
its unbelievable what salt does. My '99 Silverado is starting to get real bad. So bad that its retired as my daily driver and I only really drive it in the winter if it's snowing bad enough that I wont feel safe driving my Lumina. trying to stretch the life of the truck out as long as I can, no major rot yet, but the surface rust is terrible.
You can imagine how hard it is to find a decent Corvette around here. I got lucky with mine, I look at a lot of rust buckets. we had a guy come in to my work with an '80 a few months ago. he needed an alignment. All he was talking about was how his car was "mint". well when it went up on the rack, the right side toe was really far out. on Further inspection we found swiss cheese holes in the frame where the trailing arm mounts to. he must have hit a pothole and buckled the frame. no amount of shims could correct the toe. and of course when we told him the frame was rotted he didn't want to hear it.
Just fine. Your first lesson with inclement weather and Positraction will keep your interest. Learning curve is short by necessity. Once your pulse returns to normal, you'll be fine.
There was a time or two when my 74 coupe DD looked exactly like the one in the pics.
I've lived in NH for quite a while until I moved down South. Back then I didn't have a vette so I never got to drove one in the snow. I'm glad I don't have to worry about snow anymore