Winter is starting to flex its muscles... I went from cruisin' yesterday to being grounded today, and perhaps for the rest of the year! Booooo!
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Winter is starting to flex its muscles... I went from cruisin' yesterday to being grounded today, and perhaps for the rest of the year! Booooo!
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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...
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
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
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.
Sigh... I have perfect Speedster weather today (high in the 60s), but no car yet. Not sure which is worse.
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!
My Dad was smart! The adjustment modernized rims that screamed 1980.
@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 ...
@OverKILLLL Bob After I saw that post, the wheels started turning and I am seriously thinking about adding the 3pc. Wheel bolts around the perimeter of my 16” Maxilite Fuchs
60F Saturday, yesterday 5 inches of snow and 1/2 block visibility, we had to have it in 4 wheel drive since they hadn't plowed yet. This is already the fifth time it has snowed this Fall.
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!
@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!
Its funny I saw your pictures and said wow looks like Michigan ... then saw you are in Plymouth. Nice. It was warm "ish" yesterday.
@OverKILLLL Bob your car takes bad-a$$ to the next level, so does your hat!
ALB posted:@OverKILLLL Bob- invite a neighbor over, pull out a couple of lawn chairs and a couple of beers from the fridge and watch it come down from the comfort of the front of your garage. As long as you're dressed for it (and by the pics it's obvious you are) it'll be a great way to spend part of the afternoon!
This is often what Friday nights involve... next time I will snap a few pics. Friday nights with the cars, playing pinball, and having a few adult soda pops!
Ferndale58 posted:Its funny I saw your pictures and said wow looks like Michigan ... then saw you are in Plymouth. Nice. It was warm "ish" yesterday.
Yes Plymouth! I didn't realize yesterday was a REALLY good day to take the kit car out. We are still getting dumped on now!
MusbJim posted:@OverKILLLL Bob your car takes bad-a$$ to the next level, so does your hat!
Thank you my friend! All the ideas and advice I have received from the fine members here were put to good use on this car! I still have tons of work to be done, the interior is untouched, frunk is naked inside, lots to do!
You'll have to excuse my ignorance, guys, but Plymouth is where, exactly?
Nice to see someone else from Michigan!
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