| Cold day ruminations [message #361448] |
Mon, 04 January 2021 12:16  |
Silvernort
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Registered: June 2019
Location: Rock Springs, WI
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Sitting here looking out of the window at my snow covered 76 PB, I thought a thought I hadn't thunk of for a long time. Back in the winter of 76 or 77 I ran across a contest to win a Coca Cola GMC Motorhome. WOW, I really wanted that, so my wife and I stuffed several envelopes with entries that (for some reason) we colored the back sides to look like the aforementioned GMC.
I haven't heard anything from them yet. Wonder if my winners notice got lost in the mail?
I'll wait just a little longer...
Cheers
Shane Harvey
1973 26' "Packer Backer", 1976 Palm Beach, 1965 Dart
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| Re: Cold day ruminations [message #361449 is a reply to message #361448] |
Mon, 04 January 2021 12:19  |
boybach
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Location: Vancouver Island
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If you lived in Canada, I'd say wait a bit longer, your response could still be in the mail system.
Larry
Larry - Victoria BC -
1977 ex-Palm Beach "Ol' Leaky" 40,000 miles, PO said everything working but forgot the word NOT. Atwood helium fridge, water heater & furnace. SS exhaust system, Onan, Iota Converter, R134A, New fuel lines & heat exchange hoses
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| Re: Cold day ruminations [message #361454 is a reply to message #361448] |
Mon, 04 January 2021 13:47 |
tgeiger
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Registered: February 2006
Location: kansas city
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Talking of cold days was wondering if anybody had some good driving the GMC in snow stories. I seemed to remember someone said they put cable chains on theirs and took it skiing in the rockies. I always wondered. When I first got mine and stored it up by a fishing and skiing lake, I went up there on a snow day and tried it out on the snow covered country roads where no was driving. Seemed to do pretty well but they were fairly flat roads with some gentle hills.
Tom
76 Eleganza 2
Kansas City, Mo
Tom Geiger
76 Eleganza II
KCMO
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| Re: Cold day ruminations [message #361455 is a reply to message #361454] |
Mon, 04 January 2021 14:22 |
lqqkatjon
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Registered: October 2010
Location: St. Cloud, MN
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I take mine out hunting the first couple weeks in November in MN. About an hour drive north east on pretty flat roads. There has been a few times that trip has been after a recent snow, and when it is icy, it is downright scary. I am not talking about snow, I am talking about right after the plow came through, or other vehicles have driven on it and smoothed it out to a pretty slick surface. I am used to driving in all sorts of conditions in many other vehicles, but the GMC was not a very nice feeling ride on ice. when the back gets blown you just don't have a good feel for the road, ulike other vehicles. Stopping is also very unpredictable. I also learned very quickly any ice covered inclines were something to really pay attention to. You do not want to stop while you are pointed uphill. You will not get any forward momentum and tires will spin in place. When that lesson was learned, luckily no one behind me so I could back up and get a run up the incline. It did not take much of an incline to cause no way of starting forward momentum on the ice.
sometimes I would rather drive through 1 foot of snow, then drive on a recently plowed road.
Jon Roche
75 palm beach
EBL EFI, manny headers, Micro Level, rebuilt most of coach now.
St. Cloud, MN
http://lqqkatjon.blogspot.com/
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