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mine has only had snow on it once so far. and after friday its gonna really suck when it does snow cuz the new top i'm having put on is a glass window. and of coarse there's no rear defrost for it, so i might have a hard time seeing out of it...oh well i'm used to it anyways...the one i have right now looks like this
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here in georgia its a wonder to see snow a lot of times. very rare, even if we do it is january or febuary when we see it and then its like an inch thick here max, but the ice is the worst.
Yeah suck hitting the gap at 40, unless you had the right ramp
Mine is not coevered in snow, but there is about 6" that I have to fight through to get to my garadge. I worked on my car last night for 3 hours when it was 5 or 6* F. In all that time I was just able to cut and fit MSD wires and route the loom. Tonight (if I don't chill with the woman) I am thinkin' of wiring up the Mallory ignition box. Should be fun.
whew, i was bracing myself to see a wrecked 3rd gen when I openen this thread. I'm glad it was just a little snow :-) Oh and Chevy Ken, that's a crazy picture. I can't imagine seeing that and I live in Buffalo!
my car looks like zephers right now...its freezing rain right now. Was snowing earlier. Oh well what can ya do. Ill never let this car be rusted out...so even if it does rust in 10 years it will be fixed. But it is truly sad for such nice cars to be in this weather
Originally posted by JB22 It makes me sad inside to see so many thirdgens out in the salt
I have seen a handful out and about where I live too... so sad
Same here. There are only a few nice ones that you see in the summer, but the majority are driven year round and live up the the camaro standard: Rustbucket-rednec cruisers.
Your exactly right, it's the salt that kills em, not the snow
Having relocated to SoCal from Detroit almost 16 years ago, I'd almost forgotten just how much I hated living in those wintery conditions. I had to be back in Detroit just a couple of weeks ago, for a full week. Bleak, drab, salty, dirty.....man, I really feel for you guys.
Yeah, a nice fresh covering of snow looks real pretty, just like a Christmas card - especially the picture hmmurdock_00 posted - but then you have to live it. Seriously, I'd have to own a total beater for winter driving if I lived there again, and yet, strangely, I have no desire to own an early '80s Chevy Citation!
Originally posted by Zepher this is usually the worst we get, but every few years we'll have a storm where the snow will stay on the ground for a couple of days.
I was there in 1980 when it dumped 18" overnight. Shut EVERYTHING down for about two weeks. My next three years in the area saw hardly any snow.
Originally posted by Al Hasse I was there in 1980 when it dumped 18" overnight. Shut EVERYTHING down for about two weeks. My next three years in the area saw hardly any snow.
I heard about that. I moved here from Iceland back in 91 and the worst snow since was prabably the winter of 93/94.
Originally posted by Zepher this is usually the worst we get, but every few years we'll have a storm where the snow will stay on the ground for a couple of days.
Amazing! It seems as though the falling snow has been oddly attracted to, and centralized entirely, on the RA1 Hood!
Originally posted by Zepher I heard about that. I moved here from Iceland back in 91 and the worst snow since was prabably the winter of 93/94.
That was classified as a blizzard by the locals. I had seen much worse and was actually having fun in the stuff. Learned to drive in snow in Michigan. I'm sure many here have seen worse also.
the worst we got last year was like a foot or two. somethin' like that. i think in the spring i'll be undercoating my car, should had done that before this winter, but it's never too late right?
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Salt? none here. So I am really not worried, as long bare metal is covered with something here noting will rust. Like my 1960 VW which sat in the elements most of its live, the only rust was the battery tray.
But the only reason i ever hated snow after december is it would shut the whole town down if it snowed 1 inch. I swear i seen it happen, and its a small town already nothing to do hardly.
hehe that be funny a general lee playing in the snow.
Its alot different in the south then it is up here in the Northeast. Its certain death for any vehicle to be driving around in the elements up here from December - April.
I don't like snow either. This was last year in December. Let's hope it doesn't happen again this year!
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Why thank you! Lets see a pic of your first car! and it was only 450 bucks not runin and Its getting repainted Just dropped it off today Now I need wheels...
Yeh its getting repainted right now so I need some wheels and In the future ( after I pay off the paint job and transmision) I will get aero ground effects painted black a ram air hood and a wrap around spoiler
i just got mine yesterday, and i didn't even know it was supposed to snow this morning, here is some pics with some snow on it, it was past the heavy stuff, after it quit snowin
this is my 100% stock 90' iroc. this is the best pic i have since every other one shows all the damage i've done to it since owning it for all of 5 months.