[GH85Carrera]

My 914 did great in the snow and ice, as long as the ruts were not too tall, and I did not drag the bottom.

We had a blizzard back in about 1978-1979 with 45 MPH winds and over an inch per hour. My grandmother was stuck at my aunts house, so I was the lucky one to go get her and get her home. My 914 was my only car, so it was the only choice. It took me four hours to go the distance that is normally 20 minutes.

My first apartment was a real beauty, $90 per month furnished. It was a total POS garage apartment. The garage downstairs was full of crap so I could not park inside, and of course it was unheated. My water pipes froze. My landlord drove a pickup and was stuck at his house. I had to go to TG&Y, and buy him some snow chains, drive to his house, and then get back home. The ol 914 just putted along in the snow, and at some points I could see the drag marks from the engine mount bolts on the snow between the tire ruts. It took him all day to get o my apartment, and heat up the garage enough to find the frozen pipe, replace it, and thaw the pipes. I went for three days with no water. I had to go outside to scoop up snow to melt to flush the toilet, and brush my teeth with beer. And if I had to open a beer, I was not going to pour it out. This was all in the late 1970s, so before anyone had bottled water.

In the end I spent most of the months rent of his chains, and the chains pluse the day of no water was the price of a months rent.