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Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Austin, TX USA - Ya'll
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Dallas Pelicans...snowed in or on the road?
wondering if anyone would drive their pcar in this weather?
   does Dallas throw down salt? will it damage my galvanized SC? (trying to keep it from going OT  )
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02-14-2004, 02:36 PM
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texas......the only state where you could rake snow
 call your local road department, they'll be able to tell you if they salted and probably where if you're way rural.
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02-14-2004, 07:34 PM
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I wouldn't drive mine out there, but I saw a nice 928 pulling out of Zim's this morning as I was going in to pick up some brake pads. This was when there was still a fair amount of slush on the road.
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02-14-2004, 08:05 PM
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I wish we had weather here. Anything... as our mild winter is getting pretty boring.
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02-14-2004, 08:27 PM
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Re: Dallas Pelicans...snowed in or on the road?
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02-14-2004, 09:33 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: ....down Highway 61
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Forget about the salt for a second. Are you guys used to driving in that weather there?
If it snowed like that in Baton Rouge, I would leave the car at home. People here wouldnt have a clue what to do if there was ice on the road. They would lose their minds. I wouldnt want my car out there with a bunch of people who didnt know how to drive on ice even the roads were not salted or covered in gravel. |
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You guys don't call that a storm, I hope!
Now, January 1977 & 1979 ... those were storms!!! No ... Dallas spreads SAND on the bridges & overpasses!
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Did you get the memo?
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I drive mine daily, but I know that any day a group of Porschephiles are going to show up at my house and beat me for driving my non-galvanized car in the winter. Of course, I'm not driving it anywhere right now because it has a gas leak, but that's a different story.
 911s are awesome in the snow, easily the best RWD car I've ever driven in slick weather. Not a lot of ground clearence though, when we recently had a foot or so, it stayed in the garage. It's fun, go around the block or something, pretend you're in the WRC.
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02-15-2004, 09:19 AM
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Weather can be challenging in S.E. PA but the Porsche handles well. My concern is with the other guy on the road.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/ultimate/icons/icon11.gif
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02-15-2004, 10:06 AM
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02-15-2004, 10:09 AM
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That has been a familiar sight this winter. I just finished a stereo modification new 6x9's in the back and a new power plate, inconspicuous as possible, Alpine and Infinity. Something fun to do whilst it snows.
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