tempest

All right... i'm sure this has been asked before, but here goes...
(easy on the flames, i'm still a newbie.:blueangel: )

Do you love driving your corvette SO MUCH that you will drive it YEAR ROUND???

And yes, I am toying with the idea, after surviving two Wisconsin winters with a camaro.
(whoops, sorry, should've put this in Gen'l Discussion...)


[Modified by tempest, 2:15 AM 9/10/2001]

Larrym96815

Yes, all year. Top off in the winter, top on and A/C in the summer. :cool:

Aloha,
Larry

MJ

Winter? Isn't that when the surfs big on the north shore Larry?

93vetteguy

Louisiana winter are mild down here. On a clear winter day I love to take the top down and cruise. But when it rain my baby stay park (I have three other vehicle). It seem like when it rain in the winter here in Louisiana, it pours the idiots drivers. :cheers:

RichS

Nope. It snows pretty good here in the Poconos. Car goes on layup for 3 months.

Mr Mojo

Only if teh snow is deep.
Earlier this year driving back from Florida I hit freezing rain in NC and some big time snow in VA. Took me 8 hours to go 41 miles due to traffic problems, people were crashing into each other all over the place. Luckily I missed the 120 car pileup.

ASR doesn't work too well in the snow and ice.

jfb

In Nov or early Dec I put Blizzaks all around and keep on driving my 87 everyday just like I have been doing with every vette I have owned starting with a 64.

C4 Suke

I drive it in the winter until heavy snow comes... then I park it, this year maybe in the garage, and drive something with front wheel drive, probably a nissan sentra, mid 80s.


[Modified by C4 Suke, 7:11 AM 9/10/2001]

Shayne

you all should move here yeah yeah...then I could have some vette buddies localy.....its always 75+ here..even when its raining...you dont need no stinken top....cuz there aint no snow....only time I see snow is when I open the freezer to get some coconut milk :crazy:

honas

Norfolkinway! Not here!

scorp508

I did last year, and wouldn't think twice about it this winter also! The car is perfectly fine, snow, ice, whatever. It's a car.... there are more throttle positions besides 0% and 100%. I washed the undercarriage once a week to keep any salt off, and she's perfectly fine this year.

Fastguy

This will be my first winter with the 88 and I have always driven my HP cars year round. I can vouch for the fact that Scorp's car is VERY clean and you would never know its a 365 car. Of course if the snow is so deep that the spoiler starts plowing snow, I have a POS 86 Dodge 4X4 that I plow my driveway with.

hookedup

Does anyone have the C4 snowplow post from last winter? :lol:

92TripleBlack

All winter long. Its my only ride so you do what you have to. I do have access walking distance from my place to the train so I avoid actual snow days if possible. I also have been known to take my girlfiends Eclypse GS-T Spyder from time to time to avoid snow. I grew up skiing and used to go to vermont in the snow in my IROC with my buddy. Driving around here is easy compared to that. This year I may though get a set of snow tires for the stock rims as I am getting a second set of GS rims. Any Ideas on tires for our car in the snow? My girlfriend is also trading in the GS-T end of the year. I'm working her over for a Tahoe(In black).
92TripleBlack

miker61588

no winters here stays in the garage for 4 months :D

Kevin McGrade

I am prepared this year

BobMachus

Winters here tend to be pretty mild as long as you stay on the Front Range. I will probably drive mine when the roads are dry, which is most of the time. When it snows it only stays on the ground a fews usually, so I will drive my truck then. Of course the mountains are very snowy, no Vette in the MTNS in winter, I am too fond of it.

Bob

LayZ

Of course i do why not. Snow or no snow it's just bad once it comes down. When your home and they plow it's like driving in the rain.

Paul G

My 88 only goes out in the winter on clear dry days. I have a van for the everyday driving. It's just not worth the hassle trying to get a car like this to navigate through snow. My driveway is kinda steep. Theres no way the Vet could make it up in snow.

Jim85IROC

My IROC gets put up before the first salt of the year. There's no way I'm subjecting my IROC to the salt. Not after the amount of blood, sweat and tears that I've shed for it. I've driven an f-body every winter since I was 16 (sans for 1 white-knuckled year in a Cherokee) and will do so again this year... but not my IROC. I plan on keeping this car for the long haul, and subjecting it to salt just is not tolerable to me.

My GTA will stay on the road for the winter, but will only go out on dry days. Fortunately around here, it snows like hell for a day or 2, then stays pretty much dry for extended periods of time. Not like Rochester where it snows every shooted day. You should see how bad my cars would rust after just 1 or 2 winters out there. The lake effect snow would dump an inch or 2 every single night, which meant that every morning the roads were soaked with salt.