<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Trekcarbonboy, I'm not too sure about other countries but the british winter, accompanied by the british road salt can ruin a car very quickly. Once she's treated then i will happily use her through the winter. A TR7 in the snow must be very entertaining!<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
No no. Car goes away BEFORE the first snowfall! The salt sucks here too! The TR7 lives in the garage so putting it away is not much of an event.
Years ago when it was my only form of transportation I did drive it during the snow a few times and I would have to say that it did suprisingly well. Not great, but better then expected. I remember waiting at the bottom of a 1/2 mile hill for another car (80's Camaro) to clear the top (couldn't see the top due to a bend in the road). Once I started the car climbed right up no problem, even got a thumbs up from a Hi-Lux going the other way, (plenty of weight in the trunk) untill I came upon the afore mentioned car that was stopped sideways just before the crest. I was less then happy about that. Had to stop and needed a push to get going again. On another occasion I was cruising right along on what I thought was nice "grippy"[:)] snow and low and behold next thing I know I'm spinning on ice into a snow bank.[:(] No car is good on ice! That must have been 1992 and the car hasn't seen snow or salt since.
I think the narrow stock tire size helped keep it moving well through the soft snow.
My uncle, the previous and original owner, sprayed the bottom of the car with a generous amount of that DIY undercoater stuff when he first got it. So I'm fortunate to have a minimal rust Speke car. The fact that it was usually sitting in his garage broken didn't hurt either.[:D]
Craig
