[DeTomaso] NPC: Cruise Control in the Rain issue Fact

[Mad Dog Antenucci]

I am humbled....The problem with 97% of the List is you are all afraid of your own shadows...you and Doug of course being part of the 3% exception. ;-]>
   
   
  MD, No wheelies but plenty of wheel time in snow, ice and rain.
  
asajay at asajay.com wrote:
  Oh Yeah! Well . . . well . . .
:)

Damn, hes good!

Let's just say, been there, done that. (I lived in Renton for a 
while, across a winter and got to see what it's really like on your 
side.) You ain't driven a high horsepower sports car until you've 
driven it in 8 inches of snow, to and from work, 30+ miles each way 
(uphill). :)

Asa Jay


Quoting Doug Braun :

> Oh Yeah Asa, Mad Dog's one fault is he's humble! He forgot to mention that
> when he's looking through the floorboards, he's pulling a constant wheelie.
> Us West of the Cascade types are superior drivers, Ha!
>
> Doug Braun
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com
> [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]On Behalf Of asajay at asajay.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:38 PM
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: Cruise Control in the Rain issue Fact
>
>
> Sheeeeeet, that's nothin',
>
> I used to drive my 1971 Mach I across that same pass in the dead of
> winter, after the Interstate was closed, with snow piling up in the
> front chin spoiler, and ice so slick all I had to do was tap the
> brakes at the top of the pass and slide all the way to Spokane. I had
> discovered Rain-X by then, but it did little good as the snow simply
> slid to the top of the windshield and piled up until it buried the
> wipers, and then I'd have to drive using the rear view mirror looking
> back through the louvers on the back window to see where I had been.
>
> Asa Jay
>
>
>
> Quoting Mad Dog Antenucci :
>
>> Okay...When I lived in Seattle I drove over Snoqualmie and Stevens
>> Passes on multiple occasions to drive to Idaho to buy Coors Beer
>> because you could sell a case of Coors in 1975 at the UW frat houses
>> for 3 times what a case of Olympia beer cost.....mission
>> accomplished in a '50 Willy's Wagon, with tires that had no tread
>> and In the winter when there was snow I had no chains, and when I
>> couldn't see the road in front of me because the windshield wipers
>> barely worked I could always look through the floorboards which
>> were rusted out.
>>
>> Mad Dawg
>>
>> Mark McWhinney wrote:
>> five miles, through the snow, up hill, both ways
>>
>> thanks, gramps. tell us another one.
>
>
>



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