[DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway

[gudmund frøland]

I bought a Pantera from US this summer ,picked it up in Oslo abouth 7 weeks ago poring down with rain the whole 500 km home,ordered time for Norwegian plates and got time today. Woke up in the morning realise it was snow outside,nerly craying of had to take the car out for a drive in this misserable weather.Drowe away 30 km for inpection.Car worked fine and no comments while checked.

Best regards     Gudmund Froiland   


--- Den ons 2008-10-29 skrev Larry - Ohio Time Corp <larry at ohiotimecorp.com>:

> Fra: Larry - Ohio Time Corp <larry at ohiotimecorp.com>
> Emne: Re: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway
> Til: "'Thomas Tornblom'" <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>, cengles at cox.net
> Kopi: detomaso at realbig.com
> Dato: Onsdag 29. oktober 2008 17.05
> It is always a good news day when the southern parts of the
> US get snow and
> ice. The local news shows all the people sliding all over
> the place.
> 
> It is also good to know how fast to drive and when not to
> drive in bad
> weather.
> 
> Larry - Cleveland
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com
> [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
> Behalf Of Thomas Tornblom
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:43 AM
> To: cengles at cox.net
> Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway
> 
> cengles at cox.net skrev:
> > Dear Torbjorn, 
> > 
> > You wrote:
> > 
> >> And Yuppie to day the first snow fall, with a
> total chaos on the main
> >> roads. Several 100 cars of the road.
> > 
> > Please help me understand this situation. We in the
> subtropical zone of
> Oklahoma and Texas think that all residents of Scandanavia
> are completely
> familiar with cold, white snow material and are completely
> competent to
> drive in it. We think that the reason one or two inches of
> snow paralyzes
> Dallas or Oklahoma City and sends hundreds of vehicles into
> ditchs, other
> cars and freeway retaining walls is that we do not know how
> to drive in the
> snow. It would seem that Norwegians also have a short
> memory and have to
> re-learn each winter, too?? I just don't see how that
> can be, but several
> hundred Norwegians off the road don't lie. Aren't
> you all supposed to be
> natural ice, snow and rally drivers??? ;-)
> 
> The same thing invariably happens every year in Sweden on
> the first snow 
> and frost. It is as if snow  and ice is something
> completely unheard of.
> 
> I must also say that snow and frost is much worse in areas
> that don't 
> normally see much of it.
> 
> We who live up north has always looked down on the people
> living in 
> southern Sweden, or anywhere closer to the equator, where
> they run into 
> massive traffic issues if there are just a few snow flakes
> coming down. 
> After having driven through southern Sweden during a
> relatively mild 
> snowfall in December they get much more respect from me. I
> have seldom 
> experienced anything so slippery and messy.
> 
> It is normally much drier and colder up here, which gives a
> much better 
> grip.
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
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