[jyl]

I took the W124 not-4Matic up to the mountains. No snow tires, cable chains in the trunk, just like we did when we were young and couldn’t afford snow tires and every car wasn’t a AWD SAV. Wow, are old-school RWD cars crap on snow/ice! Got half way up a road, decided it was getting too icy, making the K turn wasn’t trivial, then soft-footed it down to bare pavement, got to rented cabin, road is hilly and packed snow/ice, had to use momentum to get to the driveway, and first thing tmrw chains are going on.

(What with holidays and such, haven’t gotten around to putting snow tires on this car, and the car that has snow tires is having a problem, so . . . )