>At 03:50 PM 8/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Steven Tritle wrote:
>>>
>>> Why put her away at all? I drive the TD all winter....just not in the snow.
>>
>> Depends on what you call "Winter".
>>
>> Usually when I see somebody suggesting they drive the car
>>all winter, they live in one of those states where winter
>>means a sweater and a once a year dusting of snow causing
>>100 car pileups.
>>
>>--
>>Trevor Boicey, Ottawa, Canada.
>>tboicey@brit.ca, ICQ #17432933
>>http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
>
>
>Trevor, Kansas City, Missouri may not compare with Ottawa for winters (I
>know it can't), but we =are= known for severe ice storms and you better not
>even think sweater in the winter or you'll be asking someone to get your
>blood moving again with the "blue wrench". Anyway, when I was a tyke of 17
>I owned a 1963 Midget. Top came off the first day it wasn't raining and
>didn't go back on again unless it rained again (car stored outside).
>Notice I said "raining". For snow I didn't feel it was worth putting the
>top up. The car was a beater so no chance of screwing it up worse. I'd
>get up in the morning, take one of those little whisk brooms out to the car
>with me and after getting the major snow out of the seat with a winshield
>scraper I'd whisk out the seat and off I'd go in the 18 degree F winter -
>top down.
>
>That is when I wasn't walking 10 miles to and from school in the blinding
>snow - uphill both ways. :)
>
>Philip
>1974 Damask Midget - Arioch, Lord of Chaos
Ah reminds me of winters in WY and CO. And there it is uphill both ways
check a topo map. :-)
Larry Macy
78 Midget
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