Well, according to my grandfather, all it took to survive winter was to walk
ten miles each way to school every day. Uphill both ways, of course.
BillG
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-spitfires@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-spitfires@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 2:51 PM
To: Laura Gharazeddine; spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: RE: Basically worthless message, but I feel better!
When I was little, everybody drove 2wd sedans instead of SUVs,
AND they didn't dump 100 tons of salt on the roads every time
a bit of snow fell, AND all-season radials had not been invented,
AND winters were colder!
I wondered how anyone made it through the winter then!
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 11:58 AM 3/5/01 , you wrote:
> > It's snowing here in Harrisonburg VA. but I will still be out driving in
my
> > Spit. Common sence will get you further than 4wd.
> >
> > Tod Jones
> > Harrisonburg VA.
> > 67 Spit Mk II
>
>You're absolutely right!
>
>When we lived in Colorado Springs and the Ute Pass area, and later in the
White Mountains of Arizona- everyone told my mum that she'd have to get a
four wheel drive (as they were called back then), that we'd never be able to
get around for and entire winter with either her '63 Caddy or her Chevy
Nova. It used to bring joy to my old mum to be cautiously making her way
down the road and see so many over zealous 4 wheel drivers stuck! My mother
was from upstate New York-and held to the day she died that they "had *real*
snow there!" I don't think anyone in my immediate family have owned 4 wheel
drives when they lived in snow zones. I found that people get carried away
(including in this particularly wet winter we're having here in so. Cal) and
think that they're invincible and don't slow down.
>
>Wetly,
>Laura G.
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