[DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway

Jørn C. Olsen joernco at online.no
Fri Oct 31 16:39:26 EDT 2008


Hehe,....the defence rests...........!
I will let you and Patrick battle it out!

J.C.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mad Dog Antenucci 
  To: Jørn C. Olsen ; Thomas Tornblom ; cengles at cox.net 
  Cc: detomaso at realbig.com 
  Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 7:25 PM
  Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway



  Sheeeeeeit Jorn you must think I can be frightened. I would love to come back to Norway, Please send me air tickets ASAP and make sure you have macaroons and cold milk in the refrigerator.

  And Jorn, remember long before I got to Vietnam or the Middle East I grew up driving in the snow and ice. We were rallying in snow and ice before they called it rallying and we didn't need any gay studded snow tires either. Yea, okay we couldn't afford studded snow tires but that is besides the point! ;-]> 

  And don't forget we also have open road races in Texas, Nebraska and Mexico. The Viking Firebird team have only been to Silver State but I have to admit they were dam fast and made one hellva impression on all....I already bet Belgium Boy he could not run faster then me in any open road race with that RACE Pantera of his....Remember, the Silver State is the easy open road race...try running Mexico, Nebraska or Texas and I guarantee you that you will have a good pucker factor time espially if you are driving a 'stock' Pantera. Best part is girls flashing the ta-ta's at you in Mexico.....beer is good too. ;-]>

  PS
  Scared?  Just so you know when you are REALLY scared you can't pull a greased string out of your YAZOO.  

  Love ya,

  Mad Dawg Antenucci
  Team Pantera Racing
  "Go Fast or Go Home"



  "Jørn C. Olsen" <joernco at online.no> 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" 
    To: "Thomas Tornblom" ; 
    Cc: 
    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 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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