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 winter driving...winter in DC is strange. It snowed yesterday, but on Sunday, it was close to 60 degrees outside. The weather patterns are very strange here. Therefore, if one were to run snow tires in the snow here, you would be changing back and forth literally almost every day during the heavy snow season. Not really worth it. You're better off buying all season touring tires for the street, and purpose-made autocross tires for the track.
-Dave '91 GLI 16V (with near-bald Pirelli rubber....glad I'm heading south this weekend) In a message dated 1/19/00 11:53:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > PS i dont care what you tell me, if you never lived a winter above the > mason/dixon line you dont know how to drive in snow, unless you drove > through > a cold state in winter > _____________ _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
