Pine Pollen
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Drifting
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From: Montgomery Texas
Pine Pollen
This time of the year in Texas SUCKS!!!!!! If you own a black Vett you can wash your car and not 30 mins later the whole car is yellow. I own two black vetts a black Excursion and the pine pollen drives me insane!!!! Bring on the pine beetels.
Drifting
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Live in North Carolina and we don't have the yellow pollen yet but it is only a few weeks away. I keep my car highly detailed. The thing with the pollen is that while easy enough to wash off large surface areas it seems to get in all the nooks and crannies like door jams, etc. and is a pain to remove. I just keep the Corvette garaged and covered for a few weeks. Good Luck.
Pro
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From: Ruston Louisiana
Yep - One of those evils in the South. Don't see anyway around it - Pray for a weekly rain which help and that the season is only a couple of weeks. Last year was a bad pollen year with the drought. Be glad you do not have to work as a forester as I did for 37 years. You come home looking like a yellow jacket, eating and breathing the mess. so much for gripping. 
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St. Jude Donor '12
We live in the forest here in so. cal at 7000 feet. We usually get the pine pollen in late may or june depending on how the weather is. Yes its bad for the cars but its worse if you happen to be allergic to it like the wife is.
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From: Kernersville NC
I lived in Columbia, SC in the mid/late sixty's and don't remember it being like this. I had a black Nova SS then and you'd think it would have left an image in my mind. I now live in the Charlotte area and it's miserable every year. Like another member said, a fail amount of rain (and wind) during this time helps. We're not seeing it here yet but it's only a few weeks away.
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Next time buy yellow. Then ya can put up with all the damn bugs that seem to love that color.