During the late 60's in northern Arkansas we would take the hood off of an
old car or truck to use as a sled. Any hood that slopes down like the AD
hoods, etc. worked find. If attached behind a 4X4 International Scout (or
probably any other 4X4 but a friends father had a scout) and pull it down
the snow-packed highway it can be a lot of fun (perhaps dangerous also as I
look back on it all . . .). We liked to tie a rope to the back of the hood
and then someone on a sled would hold to the rope and we would have even
more fun. As the truck starts weaving from side to side, the hood with
passengers swings more wildly and the sled ends up in a snow bank in the
ditch. I found that the relatively sharp edges on the inside of the hood
can cut through several layers of blue jeans, long johns, etc. A little
cut-heal from the pig farm stopped the bleeding an we were back on the
highway.
We don't get the white stuff in southern Louisiana and I miss it.
BobK in LA
51 3600 5-window (project)
Arnaudville, LA
"Jhouse"
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Winter in Texas
11/29/01 06:46 AM
Please respond to
"Jhouse"
bo hoooo
Welcome to my world. We have most of the ski resorts open but for at my
house it was 33 and raining this morning. I get to go camping this weekend
with the Boy Scouts and am hoping for snow! It is called a freeze out - we
provide the moose stakes for dinner! Nothing like a long cold hike in the
woods to make you hungry.
Have fun with it - a fun tip for your kids. If you do not have sleds you
can use some of your old truck parts for the kids to slide on down the
hills. Take one of your truck tubes and fill it almost solid and let em
go.....
NHJim
45 Chevy 3104
-----Original Message-----
From: MKlepp4335@cs.com [mailto:MKlepp4335@cs.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 8:22 PM
To: oletrucks@autox.team.net; old-chevy-truck@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [old-chevy-truck] Winter in Texas
Groups,
I know all those located in the northern tier of the country expect foul
weather this time of year, but here in Texas, our winter doesn't start
until
January and ends in February, more or less. We had a storm that started
yesterday afternoon and lasted for 24 hours. We now have 8 inches of the
white stuff on the ground and it is a mess. Almost everything was closed
and
travel poor at best. In this part of the country, the largest piece of
snow
removal equipment is a shovel. Roads smaller than interstates may be
plowed,
city streets just have to melt. With the temperature going down into the
teens tonight, not much melting will occur. I was to fly out in the
morning
to Orlando Florida, but not sure that will happen either. Maybe I'll go
out
and make snow angels. At least my old truck is high and dry in the garage,
covered up.
Mike Klepp
'48 3100
Wichita Falls, TX
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