What are you snowed in guys doing?
 

I am going cabin crazy. I went out to the garage and just sat in the porshe yesterday. How sad is that. How do you guys who store your cars in the winter make it though? I am counting days until this snow and ice is supposed to disappear.
Mike

Sad it is. I usually sit in mine a couple of times a week. Taking in the atmosphere in the coupe. The light smell of oil, the gauges, fondling the wheel... Over two months now since the old girl and I had a go at it.

Phone clients and explain I'm working on their procedures and controls. Make pots of coffee laced with rum and work on novel.

Buy stuff from amazon and other on-line merchants and enjoy efforts of couriers to deliver in ice and snow.

Work through dvds and books I've been hoarding for just this time.

Shoot pine cones from porch with an airpistol.

Check the thread on snow tyres and that I have chains, shovel and axe in the 911. (blanket, chocolate, cellphone and whiskey are also a good idea). Go for a drive.

It's not the snow that keeps the old E in her garage this winter, (its been extraordinarily mild) but the salt on the roads. I don't want to send salty moisture into the hidden places of 37 year-old sheetmetal. I converted the tensioners over to pressure-fed this winter, so now I'll wait another couple of months for the rain to wash all traces of the nasty old salt off the road. I know of a couple of tunnels under the main road where the echo of the exhaust note of the flat six can send chills up your spine. Sigh!
In the meantime, I'll play guitar, read, work on the material for the training courses I have contracted to give and watch the days get longer.
Yes, being semi-retired is nice! SmileWavy
Les

Well, if we actually had snow this winter, I would be riding my snowmobile, pulling the kids over a ski jump with the ATV, flying in my ski equipped ultralight, ice skating with my kids on the pond etc etc.

Instead, I am working on daughter #1's new to the family 924S (power steering racks are no fun to rebuild!).

I want snow! I want snow!!! I want SNOW!!!!!!!

Well last night after work I went for a 2 mile run, made a new down pipe for the e30 with the garage door open and then sat on the lanai and read.......


Oh I forgot there is no snow in FL.:D ;)

I have no idea how you guys deal with that white devil on a daily basis.

I ALWAYS have some sort of project going on. Since I do most things myself it takes a long time to get it done usually. The winter time is a good time to do inside stuff as you know. Like I've been framing up my basement and hanging some lights. I'm trying to finish the basement. This is the second winter on this project.

I'll make a list of stuff I want to do P-cars. That list doesn't EVER seem to end. :) But that's ok. When I get some free time away from the kids, I'll go out in the garage and tinker around. I've had the door panel off for a week now. Waiting for parts. Tonight I'm going to remove that gunk off the struts, and maybe run some wires for a stereo upgrade.

If I had TONS of free time and ran out of stuff to do I would find a hobby to keep busy. That probably won't happen for me though cause I have tooooooooo many hobbies. RC cars, trucks, airplanes, woodworking, model building, P-car. etc, etc, etc........

I feel for ya my brothers. I wont post yesterdays local temp, However, on the bright side, some of us cant experience a white Christmas...hang in there, spring is around the corner and you can enjoy driving your P-cars again...

25 Degrees in Eastern NC this morn. Just jumped in the car and went to work. Grew up in MI. Have no desire to move any further North now. Summers are wonderful here, hot and steamy, and winter only lasts until Mar. Hell last week it was 60 degree on the way home. The top was down that day. Ahh what a nice February day that was. Everyone who is snowed in has my condolences.

Wifey and I went to the beach yesterday, 80 degrees
Had lunch on the San Clemente pier, actually started working on the tan.

I have never lived in cold climate, dont think I ever will

Just spent a week in sunny so-cal with a quick trip to Vegas or Carrot Top at the Luxor and a short visit. You lower 48 guys don't know real cabin fever though so stop complaining and get outside and do something.

The winter is tough for me as I store "Helga" until around Easter. I try to get home projects done and concentrate on other hobbies (brewing, target shooting, etc...) until the warm weather returns. I do miss driving my 911 in the winter, but there's no way I will drive in the salt/snow/crud...

Hell, it was in the 50's in NW Ohio last week. I want SNOW!!!!!!

What He Said.
 

Camped on the beach at Carpinteria (just south of Santa Barbara) over the weekend. Wifey drove the Highlander with the camping trailer, I drove the Targa. Drove up the coast for an hour with the top off, mid 80s and sunny.

I used to laugh at everyone up North in the winter while I have sunny warm days here in Florida. Then we started getting pounded by hurricanes year after year. Now I wonder if I could deal with the cold.

My son (5yrs old) has been loving this snow- he got a snowboard for xmas and this is the first time he's been able to use it. We are finishing some model rockets as well to fly out on the ice, we lost about ten rockets this year due to wind and trees, easier to find on the ice when the snow isn't deep!

-Jeremy

With two young boys my winter is filled with hockey, skating, sledding, dreaming of living somewhere warm... and recently, for some reason, drinking martinis. ;)

Learning how to ski. :)

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Whenever there is a post about winter, why do the CA & FL feel they have to jump in & tell us how much fun they're having while our cars are in storage?

We know the truth.

CA is clogged with traffic, smog, more traffic & asinine real estate prices. Not to mention fires, earthquakes, mud slides & too d*mn many people & Arnold. Sure you have some nice twisties but they’re clogged with traffic except early in the morning. And that’s for 12 months of the year. Did I mention that there are too many people? CA was really nice in the ‘50s (I was there) but . . .

FL is flat. Until you reach Ocala, the only large hills are garbage mounds stuck beside the turnpike. Twisties? Hahaha. Not to mention extreme humidity for 9 months of the year with a good dose of hot mixed in and of course, hurricanes. And traffic. 90 yr old blue hairs mixed with FL-style ‘ricers’ all clogging your straight – very, very, very straight - boring roads. And that’s for 12 months of the year. Oh yeah, & you get extra traffic as we all come down & jump in Mustang rentals & scream around in the winter & the summer months visiting Mouseland & beyond.

We know the truth.

End Rant :)

Ian

Watch out where the huskies go.....

In the winter months I usually park the Porsche 944 and switch to the Porsche 964 C4...:D

I haven't shovelled my driveway in years. The 964 laughs at snow.

A post about suggestion to do in the winter followed by posts from warm weather inhabitants on how they don't have to deal with it. How predicatble. It's like their trying to justify their overpriced cost of living or something.:D

Skiin'! :D Killington on Saturday, can't wait.

Have had the Porsche out about twice or so in January due to mild temperatures, otherwise, in between routine activities, I play chess. Right now am enjoying the Playchess/Chessbase chess server online.

Spend the evenings working in the garage, (I bought a 1970 t with a lot more rust than I thought)
A lot of other time is spent skiing, for you people who live where there is no snow you don't know what you are missing. If you love driving your car or motorcycle on a winding road you would love to ski.
A plus about living in the great white north is experiencing all the seasons.

its never the snow or the salt for me

my 924S just runs so badly in the cold weather that we put it in storage for the winter and i drive my Xterra

We are planning..........and waiting......and planning some more. Oh yes. We are indeed;)

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I could not agree with you more. But, there are some nice roads to carve up. You just have to know where to find them. Plus, wee do DE's all year long and Autocrosses as well, So there!!

I ended up buying a house in Western North Carolina near Procon so I can get away from the hot hot hot summers in Florida. I also have someplace to go when the Hurricanes come. (notice I did not say IF) We named the house Category 5 because it is our new residence after the fateful Cat 5 storm levels our home.

Hi Jim

Well, I haven't found those roads in S Florida yet. The only one I liked so far was Hwy 60 from Tampa thru Yeehaw to Vero Beach. Biggest Dude Ranch in America! + Panther Crossings! For that one I would like a real car rather than the rent-a-pig I always pilot. I have to do some more inner routes since the freeways are so numbingly boring. Please make suggestions.

I drive the whole state calling on the Sound Advice stores (amongst other stores & states) so I know it well. I'll be down to the greater Miami/Broward area in 2 weeks for a couple of days so pray to the weather gods for me.

Yeah, hurricanes scare the crap out of me & I don't even live there. I've been brushed by some outer edges a couple of times on roadtrips in FL & TX. And I just gave up LA & MS as territory - business is flatlined until they get back on their feet.

Glad you didn't take offense to my rant. ;)

Ian

I feel sorry for you guys that have to put up with the snow. It was a warm and sunny 72 degrees up here. I took a drive in the twisties with the top down! Wooowhoo!! Oh, and there was no traffic either. It was so nice to smell the smell of spring.. the warm air... the 911's sound.... flowers blossoming... etc.
I'm sure imcarthur loves me. ;)

Ok guys, the snow fell last weekend, not much, but enough for the salt trucks to get out and spread the "stuff". This year I'm putting together a model of the 1971 Le Mans winning 917. I got it for christmas from my inlaws. I havent put a model together since the 70's, and I cant believe the parts, the painting, the time it takes for this project. If you ever want a model, buy one thats already put together. The garage is too cold to use, the "rose" just sits there, and my bride keeps reminding me of my promise to "get things done". Oh well, its not that long until spring. But "where are the birds"

Have fun at Kmart. Good look getting up and back with whats in the forecast for saturday. And all you guys who dont live where you can ski are deffenitly missing out. Anyways during the winter when I can't drive the porsche because of the snow I'm at school and wouldn't be able to enjoy it very much anyways.

I spent the entire day on storm debris clean up and mowing the lawn. As sore as I am right now? Wish I'd been snowbound...

Winter??? Snow???

Here in Houston we don't have winter, we just have the time between fall and spring. The past couple of weeks have been sunny and in the 70's. I think we've had a couple of nights that got into the 50s, brrrrrr. I had the top down on the miata today.

Funny thing is that we had a white Christmas a year ago. A freak storm hit Christmas Eve, and some areas near Houston got 12".

Don't feel too jealous. I don't actually have a 911 to sit in regardless of the weather. At times I'm pretty sure I'd trade you snowbound fellas.

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