Mine is a '91, and it’s just starting to peel a little, so I guess I lucked out with it. Not like my old Horizon, with its door handles snapping off on a regular basis. Which, I must say, was also a pretty good winter car. When I could get into it.
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Aye, bad weather seems to be an invitation for people with SUVs and Pickups to drive around to brave the elements and generally threaten the public welfare. Not a snowy day goes by where I don’t have some guy with his headlights three feet of the ground ride my ass cause I’m only going 45 on a 55.
I’ve got a good one for you.
Three years ago, we had an early-spring dump of about a foot of snow that I HAD to drive in.
Since the plant where I worked was in a rural area, there
were only three ways to get there from my home.
I took one way, and got to within sight of the plant’s tank farm when my path was blocked by a giant drift with an abandoned Ford Tempo right in the middle of it.
So…After backtracking all the way back to town, I took Way #2,and all was fine until I crested the top of a railway overpass and saw a Ford Taurus stuck in a big drift at the bottom of the
ramp.
The two idiots behind me, also in a Taurus, pulled next to me, the driver floored the accelerator, and Taurus #2 got all of 5 feet ahead of Taurus #1 before hopelessly bogging down. Before backing down and trying the last way out to the plant, which happened to be the only route yet plowed, I had to get out to point and laugh.
If a car just like yours can’t get through the drift, what makes you think that yours will, you moron.
BTW, a co-worker of mine, driving a 4-wheel-drive with lots of ground clearance, happened to be right behind Taurus and me.
He decided that HE didn’t like HIS chances of making it through the drift any more than I liked mine.
I like to ride my bicycle, I like to ride my biiike.
It’s the only thing that will move in the snow, It’ll get me to work even on iiiice!
Yep, in Vancouver the only safe way to travel on more than one cm of accumulated snow is muscle-power. 'cos the drivers here can’t drive when it’s dry, let alone when snow and ice are on the ground.
Ahh, life in the Bay Area. It’s 70 today, and might be 75 tomorrow. Of course, we have high rent, but it’s worth it.