[DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway

[Dave Londry]

That looks pretty flat to me Jorn.
You must have a clip with the mountain road and the trees going by each 
side at 150.
dave

Jørn C. Olsen wrote:
> Hoho MD, Norway is calling!
> Get your a..... ower here and I will get my friend with his 550HP Citroen 
> Xara 4x4 rally cross car to take you on a real experience in winter driving. 
> Bring fresh under pants my friend!  After that we can drink aquevit and eat 
> lutefisk...............!
>
> One thing is driving in 150MPH on a hot Nevada road prepared with track 
> bite, another thing is doing it on a bad slippery Scandinavian road.
>
> PS! Her is a clip of a normal lesson in winter driving from a Norwgian 
> driving school!
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhfcoNuphu4
>
> Got the picture?
>
> J.C
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mad Dog Antenucci" <teampantera at yahoo.com>
> To: "Thomas Tornblom" <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>; <cengles at cox.net>
> Cc: <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway
>
>
>   
>> Its hard to find 'real Vikings' (aka Norwegians) anymore unless they have 
>> moved to Seattle or St Paul Minnosota.
>>
>>   Now when I lived in Seattle there were more Norwegian flags waving then 
>> American flags....you guys down in SoCal think you are ill from all the 
>> Mexican and Vietnamese national flags? You want to be on the edge of scary 
>> un-American activities? Then  drive into Ballard ( a sub of Seatle) on 
>> Friday night when all those transplanted Norwegion-pigions who just got 
>> off fishing boats have come ashore and drank about 10 beers and ate all 
>> that lutafisk or whatever its called ohhhhh man, its tough.  ;-]>
>>
>>  My experience is its no different when we had snow or ice or RAIN in 
>> Seattle....the Norwegians disappeared off the roads....driving in the 
>> winter months was the best time to drive your Pantera because you could be 
>> sure NO Norwegians would be on the road.
>>
>>  Mad Dawg
>>
>> Thomas Tornblom <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se> wrote:
>>  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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