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Bob: IM S6 posted:

Snow here too, and I haven't prepped the car for storage.  Guess I'll need to fill a gas can so I can top the tank up.

Winter is nice, but...


I went to the station yesterday and topped ‘er off.  I’ve been told topping off allows less opportunity for condensation in the tank...   Next will be stabilizer. 

I knew when I had to wear my funny hat that winter was close.  I wasn’t expecting this though!   Maybe I need a radio in the car to hear the forecast.  Lol 

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Everybody romanticizes winter, until they have to deal with it. Everything from how we build homes, to how we use cars is effected by winter. Roads frost-heave and pot-hole, and are covered in cinders for half the summer. Traffic slows to a near crawl. Ending up in a ditch or pileup is something everybody (every last one of us) will experience at least once. Outdoor work takes 3x as long, and becomes 10x dangerous (you haven’t lived until you’ve been on a sloped metal roof, working on an HVAC unit, in the dark, during a blizzard.

I’m over it. 

RacerX posted:

Hey OB,

Love your car! The wheel detail totally nails it !!! Put another log on the fire for me, 85 here Yesterday. Miss the cold weather myself.

Brian

 

 

Thanks for the compliment on the wheels.  I had posted about wheels a few months ago because I was toiling with what to do.  My Dad was still alive at the time and suggested keeping the rims that came with the kit (30+ years ago) and powder coating them black.  I felt the results were very good and achieved in a relatively cost-effective manner!EEA9B36D-5F6E-4C24-994D-E9EC49BB2DBE_1_105_c

My Dad was smart!  The adjustment modernized rims that screamed 1980.

 

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@Stan Galat When we have cool weather, we enjoy it, but the snow? Not into anything past an occasional dusting. Some places back there just look uninhabitable! I grew up and we lived at the base of 10k ft. Mt. San Antonio in SoCal while the kids were young. I could literally pick them up from school and be into the snow in 30 minutes! But alas, it is California and we must leave ...

 

Stan Galat posted:
 

Everybody romanticizes winter... 

 

You're right, Stan.

I used to romanticize winter a lot.

Every time it would drop down under 20 degrees for a week at a time, I'd romanticize the crap out of it.

Every time I'd step off a curb into a puddle of slush that was a little deeper than it looked and my shoes would fill with ice water, you could hear me romanticizing halfway down the block.

As a news photographer, when everyone else was seeking shelter from the storm, I'd be sent out into the maw of the beast, looking for the god forsaken places where it was wreaking the most havoc and causing the most human suffering.

See, there I go, romanticizing again.

 

First snow of the year here, not much on the ground yet but they say a few inches on the way. It won't last though, even early December snow often doesn't last to Christmas around here.

The final leaves aren't even off the trees, I have a few maples that are still full green....and I haven't raked or closed the cottage. The weather sucks but it's not Winter yet and we'll have a mild-ish few days coming!

ALB posted:

@OverKILLLL Bob- invite a neighbor over, pull out a couple of lawn chairs and a couple of beers from the fridge and watch it come down from the comfort of the front of your garage. As long as you're dressed for it (and by the pics it's obvious you are) it'll be a great way to spend part of the afternoon!

This is often what Friday nights involve... next time I will snap a few pics.  Friday nights with the cars, playing pinball, and having a few adult soda pops!

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