[Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?

[Carl Prochilo]

The only time I ever had an issue with my SHO getting stuck was in Great
Barrington, MA during a freak ice storm.  It started raining but the temp
was so cold that a sheet of ice formed on the road.  That area of westerm
Mass is very hilly and once one car slowed enough to stop forward
momentum, ALL cars ended up pulling to the side of the road.  The only
ones that could drive through that were 4x4 SUVs and trucks.  Once I was
able to start moving again a few hours later, I learned the true meaning
of white knuckle driving.

Having said that, I wished I could have avoided driving my SHO during
periods of snow, especially on the NYS thruway where the trucks would just
dump tons of sand and salt mix.  Such is life in the north...
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Sun, October 31, 2004 1:13 pm, Paul Nimz said:
> My SHO with winter tires is the best car I have ever driven deep snow or
> on
> ice.  I did not have any winter tires for my RWD cars so I guess I am not
> so
> sure of this.  But with the FWD and the awareness that the front can't do
> two things well it pulls through the snow tremendously.  I do miss the
> rear
> end steering that can be had on the RWDs.
>
> I also don't live on a dirt road.....
>
> Paul Nimz
> '97 TR
> '93 EG mtx
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald Mallinson" <dmall@mwonline.net>
> To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>; "'V8List SHO'" <v8sho@v8sho.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 10:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?
>
>
>> Like I said, I have had both, and RWD, even with winter tires still
>> won't
>> take you through snow as well as FWD.  The right tires make a HUGE
>> difference in compentency in any vehicle, but especially RWD.  My
>> Mustang
>> with two winter tires on the back would go real well, but it wouldn't
>> turn. With four winter tires, it would have been a lot better. But my
>> SHO
>> or any FWD with the same two winter tires (this tim on the front) will
>> go
>> AND turn better than the RWD Stang (or other RWD cars).  With Four
>> winter
>> tires, a FWD SHO becomes the equal of snow plows in many ways!
>>
>> There is a reason there is no such thing as a rear drive horse drawn
>> vehicle.  :)  The advantage of the "emissions" being in back beside,
>> LOL,
>> you just can't PUSH something through muck (snow/mud) as efficiently as
>> you can pull it.
>>
>> That, flat out, is why FWD outperforms RWD in those situations.
>>
>> Oh, and you correctly brought up a fun point that with FWD you can
>> "test"
>> for ice/slick conditions easily without spinning out.  I have been doing
>> that for years.
>>
>> Don Mallinson
>>
>>
>> Ron Porter wrote:
>>
>>> As I mentioned earlier, when my wife & I were living in Chicago, we
>>> replaced
>>> the useless Eagle GTs on her '89 GT 5.0 5-speed (and those tires were
>>> even
>>> bad in the wet in summer) with some good all-season tires, and that car
>>> was
>>> as good in the winter as the SHO.
>>>
>>> Years ago, I believe that much of the issue with RWD in winter were the
>>> generally crappy tires available back then.
>>>
>>> Ron Porter
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Donald Mallinson [mailto:dmall@mwonline.net] Sent: Saturday,
>>> October 30, 2004 11:08 PM
>>> To: shotimes@autox.team.net; V8List SHO
>>> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?
>>>
>>>
>>> My Mustang without real winter tires was positively helpless in
>>> anything
>>> over a dusting of snow.  EVERY FWD car I have had, including the MTX
>>> SHO
>>> is a huge leap forward in traction in those conditions.
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