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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