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| Re: I have often thought of visiting Montreal [message #311318 is a reply to message #311310] |
Tue, 06 December 2016 15:57   |
jhbridges
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Registered: May 2011
Location: Braselton ga
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The city yuppies move up here and the first thing they do is buy a huge 4WD pickup. Comes the first ice storm (We get a LOT more ice than snow here) ever one of them heads out and as soon as they skid - maybe a quarter mile at best - they hang it in (part time) 4WD and tuck it promptly in the nearest ditch. I give them a couple of hours to get planted and then run the Mousemobile down to about 18PSI and slowly go anywhere I need to be.
--johnny
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
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| Re: I have often thought of visiting Montreal [message #311321 is a reply to message #311318] |
Tue, 06 December 2016 17:36 |
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Matt Colie
Messages: 8547
Registered: March 2007
Location: S.E. Michigan
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For the first winter in many, I don't have a 4 wheel drive vehicle handy. And, I really don't care. A 4WD will get you into trouble more easily than it can get you out. What I learned with my first (~an M2B2 in '66) was that you drive in 2WD and only use 4WD to back out and either choose another route (in the forest) or go (the hell) home (in the snow).
As said prior, just because you have 4WD and fancy brakes doesn't mean that those brakes will do you any good at all.
In our corner of Michigan, we haven't get had the first blast of winter and when we do, we will stay warm at home and let the idiots have the accident that they are working so hard for so they can go home. A friend always calls it the magic snow. It falls and all these peoples brains just Disappear. Ya Know, for a state that get winter every year, it sure does seem to surprise a lot of them.
Matt, Mary and Chaumierè are staying safe and warm
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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| Re: I have often thought of visiting Montreal [message #311322 is a reply to message #311310] |
Tue, 06 December 2016 18:51 |
JohnL455
Messages: 4447
Registered: October 2006
Location: Woodstock, IL
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I towed a big trailer in a heavy snow storm with my Tahoe last year. Sometimes you need to be in 4 to get up grades but as soon as you spin you loose all directional control and the truck follows the crown of the road. In Oct in the TZE we hit 18 deg and snow covering in SD I90 was lightly frosted but all bridges were heavy frosted in the AM. At 50 MPH if you kept your foot where it was to maintain highway speed, when you hit the bridges the fronts would start to slip and no steering. If you lifted off the gas on or before the bridges you would slip in the decell mode (plow) and no steering. The trick was to lift just enough accelerator to not be adding or removing propulsion via the front tires and she was stabile on the bridges. Observed several vehicle wheels up off the road with officers presrnt.
John Lebetski
Woodstock, IL
77 Eleganza II
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| Re: I have often thought of visiting Montreal [message #311325 is a reply to message #311310] |
Tue, 06 December 2016 19:24 |
jhbridges
Messages: 8412
Registered: May 2011
Location: Braselton ga
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One vehicle I found would go pretty much anyplace all the time was the VW Synchro - which had a front to back diff (actually a fluid thingie). Not inexpensive to own or keep up, but go anyplace. Local guy used to take his'n to the Jeep dealers' showoffs where they'd pile up logs and rocks and stuff to show only a CJ would go. Only a CJ and a Synchro - he'd go anyplace the Jeep would.
--johnny
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
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| Re: I have often thought of visiting Montreal [message #311331 is a reply to message #311325] |
Wed, 07 December 2016 06:48 |
tphipps
Messages: 3005
Registered: August 2004
Location: Spanish Fort, AL
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I always thought it pretty funny to see the' macho' 4wd vehicles in the ditch after heavy snows in New Hampshire and Virginia. I suspect that Marilyn's Subaru will go almost anywhere, hindered mainly by driver determination. Some lack of clearance may also come into play.
Tom, MS II
2012 Phoenix Cruiser model 2552
KA4CSG
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