At 6:42 PM -0500 1/19/00, [email protected] wrote:
I was trained by two of the best, my parents. They were in Buffalo, NY for
the "Blizzard of '77", for those of you who are old enough to remember it.
Personally, I wasn't even concieved at that point. ;-) Anyway, having two
parents who lived in NY for most of their lives, and actually taking my
driver's test in the snow, I think I am pretty well off. And I spent the
first two winters of my driving career on DC roads in a rear wheel drive
Volvo wagon with no torque curve at all. Anyway, to elaborate on DC and
Similarly, I spent 4 winters in Rochester, NY (one of them
the ice-storm of '91) as an undergrad: the GTI, with P600's, did
absolutely fine in the snow; but then I learned to drive in the white
stuff in a 2002! BTW, I'm now in San Diego and am very happy driving
on PZero's year-round!
Lee
P.S. funny story:
A lot of the undergrads at U of Rochester would park their
cars on the street. In the winter, the plows would pile up a berm of
snow between the traffic lanes and the parked cars. One day I was
returning to my dorm and I saw a girl trying to parallel park her
rear-wheel drive Volvo, and having no luck getting over the berm. She
was trying to park the normal way: cock wheels, back in, and got
nothing but wheel spin. I went over to help, and asked if she need to
move her car for a while; since she didn't, I had her pull nose in,
press the brake and gas (auto trannie) to get the rear wheels
spinning. I was then able to pivot the back of her car into the
space just by pushing on it. She was quite impressed!
W. Lee Hendrick
[email protected]
http://soliton.ucsd.edu/~hendrick/
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