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Re: RE: Basically worthless message, but I feel better!

To: Laura.G@141.com (Laura Gharazeddine), spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: RE: Basically worthless message, but I feel better!
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <dougnad@bellatlantic.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 15:50:42 -0500
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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