Winter: It's Not All Bad

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Here in minnesota winter is a 8 month ordeal and simply waiting it out is next to impossible. I make it a few months of opening the door between the house and garage, staring at the car. maybe clean something on it ,then go back inside and look at my car domain page of when life was a warmer, happier time. Then I brake down and say hell with it and let her rip. The car is older than I am, a lil road salt won’t hurt it as much as being caged up unable to roar and roam. Free the beast and give it a good cleaning afterward, whatelse is there to do in winter beside gain weight on the couch? Might as well polish some chrome or grease something. That’s my thoughts.

Drive that beast anywhere you want. Cars were made to be driven. Whats the point of spending all that time and money if you can’t enjoy it year round. My car is garage kept, but I drive it in the winter. It’s 22 years old and still in good shape. It’s not a matter of where you drive it, but what you do to protect it and how you clean it afterwards.

I say smoke them tires and powerslide them corners, cus its all we got left in these cars with gas prices and all!

I wholeheartedly agree with you Mike! I did the same thing when we had a bit of a deep freeze a while back. My Dodge Intrepid wouldn’t start (it was -10 degrees and new spark plugs now fixed that). My 1972 Plymouth Satellite Sebring fired right up. As much as I hated knowing there was car-eating brine on the road, and I was slower off the line than everything else, it brought a BIG smile to my face! Thanks for making me not feel so bad about it.

Doc

Hey, I got so damn sick adn tired of not having a hotrod to drive in the severe Omaha winters, I picked up a 46 chevy pickup mounted on a 78 Blazer 4X4 chassis. It has ‘glass fenders so no worries about rust in them. I installed a killer heat/defrost unit from my old 40 chevy coupe [it's a bolt-in!] and equipted the truck with electric wipers and fat traction tires…now I get to drive an old hotrod all year ’round..

ill race you for your car,so i can get those sexy wheels of yours.btw wheres my video montage?

I drive my Mustang in the snow all the time I just change out my rims for some snow tires that work great. check my page for the fun in the MN snow!

I def’n feel you. I live in DC and between the snow, salt, pot holes and all around bad roads I don’t even bring my baby, a 01 540i, out and as she has a 6 speed manual with sport package it kills me. I switch gears to my Jeep which I purchased just for city life and mark the days till spring and open roads..

be easy

haha, well, wyoming didn’t use snow on their roads, so you kinda had to deal with the snow until it melted. at least they used sand i guess… never had a problem with the cars sliding around even in the weather, but i had some really good snow tires…

then again, i moved back to my other home, the phoenix valley, in (almost) always sunny arizona

first things first you should have won, second of all you have a sweet ass car and i would trade both my nuts for for it and i live in northern alberta and it’s -42 celcius at this moment and i’m going cruisin right after this last sentence. take it easy eh

Well first I got to say that the Cutlass Boys are a bunch of ass holes for not helpin you out on the show. I had you or the Alsops picked to win it. But anyways, I live in upstate NY so I know what your talkin bout when you say really friggin cold. We are at sub zero temps where I am, (i’m an hour east of Albany up in the mountains). But hey go for it. The charger can take it, there was nothin I like better that to go out in my grandfathers T-Bird and slide around on the back roads slinggin dirt and snow everywhere its awsome. Just take care of her K? -HLC
P.S. look for me in upcoming seasons of Bullrun I have been tryin to get on the show. I got an import though so you wouldn’t like it.

Well first I got to say that the Cutlass Boys are a bunch of ass holes for not helpin you out on the show. I had you or the Alsops picked to win it. But anyways, I live in upstate NY so I know what your talkin bout when you say really friggin cold. We are at sub zero temps where I am, (i’m an hour east of Albany up in the mountains). But hey go for it. The charger can take it, there was nothin I like better that to go out in my grandfathers T-Bird and slide around on the back roads slinggin dirt and snow everywhere its awsome. Just take care of her K? -HLC
P.S. look for me in upcoming seasons of Bullrun I have been tryin to get on the show. I got an import though so you wouldn’t like it.

Well first I got to say that the Cutlass Boys are a bunch of ass holes for not helpin you out on the show. I had you or the Alsops picked to win it. But anyways, I live in upstate NY so I know what your talkin bout when you say really friggin cold. We are at sub zero temps where I am, (i’m an hour east of Albany up in the mountains). But hey go for it. The charger can take it, there was nothin I like better that to go out in my grandfathers T-Bird and slide around on the back roads slinggin dirt and snow everywhere its awsome. Just take care of her K? -HLC
P.S. look for me in upcoming seasons of Bullrun I have been tryin to get on the show. I got an import though so you wouldn’t like it.

I tell you what…winters suck up in the Northeast, agreed. I lived in Maine and had to move down here in South Carolina where there isn’t salt on the roads, and no pot holes from the frost. They can do a number on your wheels.

I highly recommend making the move if possible;-)

I live in wisconsin, and i washed my car the other day, and next day it was all salty again… winter sucks…

not to mention ice pushed apart the connector on my 200$ streetglow multi-color led underglow kit.. and the connector was draging against the ground for about a week….totally f*ckd…and a new tube costs like 70$…

note to self, and others, tape your connections like no other

I feel for all of you that have to store your cars during the winter, I live in southwest GA, our lowest temp yet was 29…. wait 28, i drive my baby every day……… take a vacation and come south for the winter.

lets see…. yea… winter sucks. We had a high of 0 today in Chicago and of course that doesnt even include the wind chill. However, three weeks ago I had teh break of a lifetime…. 60 degree weather in January! Needless to say I had the windows down and was tearing up the streets that weekend, and I even had the chance to hit up the beach for some winter surf. Good times. But seriously now, this winter needs to end NOW.

P.s. That Goddamn groundhog had better get his ass out of his hole and stay out otherwise I am going in there after him with 50 pounds of trinitrotoluem >:-D

agreed, winter in the northeast sucks. if i dont warm up my car when its outside over night for atleast 10 min the tranny slips every 5 feet. too bad it’s gonna need a rebuilding soon anyways.

oh yeah, damn that charger is hot!!!

man, i wish i was in florida !!last night up here in canada it was – 36 with the windchill, jesus !!!i only have a grand am but it is white,the actual color being black !!but i spray it annually with a rustproofing treatment.sucks though because even though it is not a real special car or anything to most,i take alot of pride in it. to see it so dirty kills me.and whenever i wash it, it snows the next darn day, DAMN !!

I drive my cars whenever I want, they get dirty, they get full of salt, but that is what car washes are for. Right now my wives car looks white, and it is a red car.

I drive my old jeep all the time during winter, but hey I live in Texas and they only salt the bridges! So no worrys there.

Move to Miami it’s summer all year long and you can drive your car/s whenever and wherever.

Im def enjoying my car, probably more than the previous owner. In fact, I bought my car with winter in mind. I love driving in snow with AWD. Check the last page of my ride for pics.

both my toy rides stay in the garage for winter, as we all know salt eats cars, so there they stay till spring

Yep, winter sux with cars but we gotta deal with it. I gotta wash my car every week just to get the salt off of it. It’s 0 degrees here today in Michigan and I’m with you Mr. Angry, I’m not gonna save my car for the next guy to enjoy cuz ya know, they won’t take care of it like we do.

I can’t bring myself to take out my cars in the salt. Living in Vermont sucks to cold and winters last way to long!!!

I dont know how you guys do it. I live in California and cant imagine havin to deal with all the snow and road problems not to mention the cold weather.

Hey, welcome back man. you were the only reason i watched bullrun religously, and i think you should have won! anyways, i live in Minnesota, the land of the -60F windchills, and 6 months of winter. Last week i had a run in with one of our winter favorites, black ice. It resulted in my Jeep being totaled, hit a sign and rolled (they are not too forgiving when they are in frozen ground).

But i do have similair things, if i don’t take my fifty apart in the winter to do some mods or repairs, i ussually take it out once or twice. Its really wicked with no power steering or heat, just you rattling away in the elements trying to keep two-ton-tesse in control. God i love my hot rod!

Thanks for coming back man!

Welcome back Mr.Angry!
HAHA!I have a halarious story for u guys,

It was about last week when i was coming back from work,-7c and even colder with wind chill,it was forcasted a huge snow storm hittin the next day. The city’s dump trucks were out in full force,i dodged all of them except on mother F*ker,i kept ripping it from red light to red light and everytime i moved a little furthure the dump truck would try to catch up,there was cops following me and it was a nightmare,until i finnaly got out of my car and fingred the salt truck driver,i quickly hit the gas when the cops left and thank God! i didnt get sprayed by salt,came home and washed the car,just like everyday!

I applaud your momentary insanity Winter is too long to wait to play with any toy especially when you can actually SEE the pavement!! up here it’s either all snow or covered in sand so no winning for losing :S Only perk to winter is being able to drift around like a loony toon without the damage on the diff or tires (as long as you don’t get intimate with inanimate objects that is…)

i live in texas where every thing is bigger even the life expectancy yea i know its not true…. any way….. it is 20 degrees here when we wake up then it gets to atleast 40 or 50 im january

i live in ohio so i know that winter frickin sucks has to was your car like 2 times a week at least, and wax it once a week. i don’t do that with my caprice right now because the paint is crap but i still try and keep it clean. really like the blog keep it up. and if any one gets a chance check out my caprice
thanks
-alex

Hate it. I live in upstate NY and the roads are not the greatest. Just the other day I got stuck behind a plow pushin the snow further off the side of the road and some how a piece of ice came out of the bank, made it under my front bumper, but took a nice piece out of my back bumper. Was no way to avoid that one ..

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of a car dude… and i actually read this last night around 4, decided youre right, took out my 1970 fairlane 500, and puttin patches on the gound everywhere… and i live in wasaga beach ontario so it was -18c here, well…. 0 in f…but thanks dude…i felt alot better after that ride and i probably would have heard her purr if it wasnt for you

14 degrees? if we could only be so lucky i woke up and it was -19 degrees (-31 with windchill) got home from work about 4 pm today and it was -7 out side but as for the salt and all the other horrible winter conditions here in the upper midwest know how you feel

Wow, that must’ve been fun sliding that Charger around. I bet that car hasn’t seen salt in 20 years. The only good things about winter is the 4 wheelin’ and finding and empty parking lot to lose control in.

Winter Rots like roadkill in August.
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The only reason why I’m still in the Northeast is because summer is HELL in the South and I’d be losing my favorite part of the year by sitting inside with the A/C on from April till October. West? Might as well be Czechoslovakia, I’m sure it’s got some nice scenery but it’s not home. Midwest? it’s the scenery between the oceans. Love it or hate it I gotta take the bad with the good in the N.E.
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The worst it gets is when the temperature stays below freezing 24 hours a day. I remember once trying to wash a Cherokee at a U-wash it place at noon. It was below freezing for a week but that day was the warmest it was gonna be for a long time. Needless to say I had limited success drying the thing off, and even getting into it to leave. The locks were frozen.
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The Winter’s harshness will make Spring all the more appreciated. I CAN’T WAIT now more than ever. Got new exhaust on my firebird and I’m really looking forward to hearing it run with the top down… something I haven’t been able to do with any other car I’ve owned.
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maybe I won’t wait till spring. My heat works pretty good…

OH YEAH!!! Love the snow, man! I dont have a garage, so I wash my 98 Sierra every week. In Kansas, we have self-wash-style carwashes with warm water, but it still sucks to get your hands wet in 20 degree weather! Check out what I do with my truck when it snows!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBLycT-K7r0

Good to be back guys – thanks for the welcome back Gents!

I’ll drive the car around in the winter if there isn’t much snow on the roads. My driveway is long and goes uphill where it meets the road, so any snow or ice really makes it difficult to even make it out. It’s difficult to get around in the snow (with rwd) where I live because of all the hills and mountains, one of which I live atop of. Going down is easy, but coming back up is another problem

It’s cool that you’re blogging here now, Mike. I look forward to reading more from you in the future.

MIKE!!!!

IT’s awesome to see you back in the Limelight again. Happy New Year Man!

I know what you mean. Most of the Cardomain people know what it’s like to live in the Pacific Northwest as far as weather is concerned but, I agree weather be damned take your toys out and enjoy em.
You know your a car nut like me when, your out washing your car and the water begins to freeze on the car as your washing it. Thank goodness my truck was spending the night in the Garage otherwise it would have been a carsicle in the morning.

The Biggest Problem in the PNW is that we fight salt and Road Grime. So I try , though sometimes not successful, to get out and wash the beasts every week or every 2 weeks. Thank god for a garage to keep them warm..

Good to see yah Mike, Take it easy
-Evan

i could go for some 14 degree temps right about now… we have been having a hard time kicking it above 10 here in Iowa… and the -20 wind chills are killin me…