<VV> snow cars

[Ron]

My '63 Rampside with stock radials is terrible on ice.  I use the Toyota 
instead.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "shortle" <shortle556 at earthlink.net>
To: "Tony Underwood" <tony.underwood at cox.net>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> snow cars


> My '63 Rampside w/ 4 studded snow tires seems to be able to go anywhere 
> here in southwest Colorado during those wintery months.
> Timothy Shortle in (snowy) Durango Colorado
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Tony Underwood <tony.underwood at cox.net>
>>Sent: Aug 9, 2009 9:44 AM
>>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>>Subject: Re: <VV> snow cars
>>
>>At 02:26 PM 8/8/2009, Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>In a message dated 8/8/2009 8:34:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>>>lechevrier at earthlink.net writes:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >I've had Corvairs with studded snows at all four  corners. Definitely a
>>>GREAT snow car! But then I got my first Subaru ...
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I have waited and waited for an explanation - What is this "snow" of 
>>>which
>>>you all speak?  Is it some kind of white substance that accumulates on 
>>>the
>>>road? Or is that something else I've heard called "salt"?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Seth  Emerson  - Waiting patiently in sunny  but shaky, California
>>
>>
>>
>>'Tis that which falls from above in times of the shortest days of the
>>months in the valleys of the commonwealth which took its name from
>>the English queen who could not get laid.    Although those with
>>great authority and equally great ignorance feel that such events as
>>the precipitation of this white substance should come to an end
>>because of their claims that the world warms uncontrollably, the
>>substance continues to blanket our beloved commonwealth on a regular
>>basis during those shortened days thus causing grief to those who
>>drive not the 4WD or products of Willow Run in its days of glory.
>>
>>
>>Should our beloved commonwealth ever suspect that salt, rather than
>>current chemical mysteries, would be best to combat the white glove
>>which embraces the land in cold months, I shall become a vigilante
>>and do my very best to infest their underwear with the larva of
>>snails and slugs, so as to give these cretins cause to reflect upon
>>another best usage of the salt they would otherwise spread far and
>>wide, which in this one's humble opinion is geared towards dissolving
>>our vintage chariots thus steering the common man into dealerships so
>>as to deplete his wallet further, while also raising the attention to
>>the conundrum of where the common man should go to purchase a new
>>chariot once his old one returns to the earth in oxide form... once
>>the mighty one in DC closes all the dealerships.
>>
>>
>>I drive my vintage steed not, in winter months when the white blanked
>>comes, for fear of the response to the possible results of the sodium
>>chloride plague considered by those who know not what they do.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>tony..
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