[DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway/tires?

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That's pretty.

Something you drive to visit.

Not something you live in.

-----Original Message-----
>From: David in Durango <adin at frontier.net>
>Sent: Oct 30, 2008 10:06 PM
>To: Thomas Tornblom <Thomas.Tornblom at Hax.SE>
>Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway/tires?
>
>Thanks everyone!  Thought maybe I could learn something . . .
>
>http://images33.fotki.com/v1116/photos/4/43175/1803460/1082006-vi.jpg
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>http://images31.fotki.com/v1084/photos/4/43175/1803460/1082003-vi.jpg
>
>and heard alot about blizzaks.
>
>cheers!
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Thomas Tornblom" <Thomas.Tornblom at Hax.SE>
>To: <adin at frontier.net>
>Cc: <detomaso at realbig.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 11:08 AM
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway/tires?
>
>
>I use studless Nokians. There are very few days with real winter
>conditions here.
>
>Thomas
>
>
>29 okt 2008 kl. 17.49 skrev adin at frontier.net:
>
>>
>> Dear Scandanavian Brothers:
>>
>> What is the tire of choice for winter???  Blizzaks?  something secret?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> David, a swede lost in the southwest
>>
>>
>> Quoting gudmund frøland <gudmundfroiland at yahoo.no>:
>>
>>> 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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