Many years ago I drove my Bugeye to a friends cabin in Big Bear California.
I drove up during a huge snow storm. The car preformed flawlessly. I parked
out front at the curb. The next morning when I awoke , the streets had been
plowed. NO BUGEYE ! There was snow piled 6ft.high on both side of the road.
Then I noticed a red shadow in the snow. It took an hour to dig the Sprite
out :-)
Mark Hanna
AN5
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dave.clark [SMTP:dave.clark55@btinternet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 3:45 PM
> To: Spridgets@Autox. Team. Net
> Subject: Re: FW: Hooray. . . . Snowy Midget Stories
>
> OK, if we're talking 'Spridget-in-the-snow stories' here's mine:
>
> We don't get a lot of snow in the south of England, but on this particular
> day, it had reached about 6 inches deep on the 'back-route' country roads
> I
> used for work. Furthermore, the top layer had started to melt and had then
> frozen so it was pretty hard. I was driving my MKIV Sprite fairly
> carefully,
> but figured that the road must be OK since someone else had left tyre
> tracks
> in the snow ahead of me.
>
> The road I was following had a long, if not very steep, slope but it was
> quite straight and, anyway, the tracks of the vehicle ahead were keeping
> me
> on course. Although I was only doing about 15MPH I wasn't really in
> complete
> control, but still not too worried. About halfway down the hill I realised
> my mistake when I saw the tracks turn into a farmyard and the snow ahead
> completely untouched.
>
> Braking made little or no difference, but hey! Snow's pretty soft and I
> was
> still only doing about 20MPH. I braced and waited for the snow to envelop
> the car. It didn't. The Sprite decided instead to follow the tracks right
> into the farmyard wherein I demolished a rotary clothes line before
> sliding
> gently to rest just outside the farmhouse door! I don't know who was most
> surprised, me, the farmer, who came running out of a barn where he'd just
> parked the tractor which had made the tracks, or the Sprite. Luckily there
> was no real damage and, after a serious deep breath, the farmer kindly
> ploughed a route for me through the remaining snow on the road for the few
> hundred remaining yards between the farm and my office.
>
> Suffice to say that the next day I followed the main road to work instead.
>
>
> Dave C (UK)
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