List,
With all this nostalglia ... anyone remember Ormond Beach? Got quite a kick
out of finding that old name and the new name for the same spot. Some fast
Brits ran there.
Denise McLuggage ....., whatever her latest name is, wrote in 'The
Centered Skiier' about traveling in an MG TC in New England winters heading
for ski areas with the tall skinny tires of the day. Claimed she never got
stuck.
The driveway trick works when you don't have sunny days that melt packed
stuff. If you have a dry cold like we do it just gets potholes and you are
punished every time you drive over it.
Wes
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> From: Chuck Rothfuss <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Winter lessons
> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 21:26:05 -0500
>
>Joe,
>
> My Dad found that keeping the snow off our 200 yard long gravel driveway
>just ended up making it into a big mud river when the snow thawed. The
snow
>banks would channel the water down the driveway and wash away truck loads
of
>gravel. He left the tractor in the barn one year as an experiment and just
>drove through the snow, packing a trail with the Jeeps all winter for Mom's
>Rabbit. In the spring the packed ruts were the last to melt and the
>driveway didn't wash away. More than 25 Michigan winters later he still
>doesn't use the tractor to push snow, and hasn't had to add any new gravel
>to the driveway. No point fighting Mother Nature, when it'll all melt
>sooner or later anyway.
>
> Speaking of your four season LSR, Dad taught me a BIG lesson in rolling
>resistance one winter when I came up from Virginia to visit. I had my Jeep
>Wagoneer, with the big 360 V8 and 10.50-15 mud tires, and he had his little
>256 six cylinder J10 with some skinny Tiempo all weather radials. We
>must've been coming home from Grandma's or something, early in the morning
>after a heavy snowfall. The road along the hay fields had drifted over to
a
>depth of about two fee, and if anyone else had been down the road that
>morning there was no sign of it. Being the young stud I was, I figured I'd
>show Dad what a real Jeep could do, and pulled out to try to pass him...and
>tried, and tried, and tried somemore. I just couldn't get anywhere unless
I
>was following along in his skinny ruts. Meanwhile he's cutting along
>through two feet of powdery snow like it was a summer day. Dad never
>mentioned seeing or hearing me try to pass him, but I know he saw me... and
>he was smiling!
> How does 4X4 stuff relate to LSR? Well...I suppose it shows that a
narrow
>tire is desireable on surfaces where flotation isn't necessary. My
>experience with Jeeps on Carolina beach sand has also taught me that
>completely bald 235-70's will get you through the sand faster than brand
new
>265-75's that are constantly trying to dig their own graves. I mention
this
>just in case any of John's new East Coast LSR venues are "Nostalga meets."
>Too bad my own Onslow Beach isn't like Daytona Beach. The five plus miles
>of uninhabited beach sure looks inviting, but even at 30 MPH the roller
>coaster like ride along the south strand at low tide is enough to make you
>vomit.
>
>Chuck "Procrastination IS hereditary?" Rothfuss
>ECTA #9 for 2000
>Pole Cat Hollow, NC (Ain't been no barefoot mailbox checkin' round here
lately!)
>
>
>
>At 10:52 PM 1/26/2000 +0000, Joe Timney wrote:
> One foot of snow doesn't sound like much... until you have to shovel
>>it.
>>
>>joe ( cold and sore)
>
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