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cr400
Location: Los Angeles, CA Gender: Male Total Likes: 73 likes
| | | Re: Vintage Subaru < Reply # 26 on 4/19/2010 4:02 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I guess my experience with unplowed snowy fire roads is all I can go on. But I'm in a lifted 4X4 truck, and after a little bit, depending on the snow depth. I'll end up with so much snow underneath me, that forward momentum is lost. I could see how a low, AWD car would be great fun, on a smooth snowy road, but if the snow were to be a foot or two deep, wouldn't it all just pile up underneath? Remember, I'm from California, I've only driven in snow 15 or 20 times over the last 20 years or so...... And Sam, Tell me about that trip to Albany you took in 1990, in your buddies Subaru. Please.
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| | | Re: Vintage Subaru < Reply # 27 on 4/19/2010 11:09 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by cr400 I guess my experience with unplowed snowy fire roads is all I can go on. But I'm in a lifted 4X4 truck, and after a little bit, depending on the snow depth. I'll end up with so much snow underneath me, that forward momentum is lost. I could see how a low, AWD car would be great fun, on a smooth snowy road, but if the snow were to be a foot or two deep, wouldn't it all just pile up underneath? Remember, I'm from California, I've only driven in snow 15 or 20 times over the last 20 years or so...... And Sam, Tell me about that trip to Albany you took in 1990, in your buddies Subaru. Please.
| Subarus are fearless in the snow. In fact their ads in the early 80's proclaimed WHY they were the best selling cars in Alaska, Maine and Vermont. Anyway, my friend Jerry had been given a 1980-something Subaru 3door. It had 180,000 miles on it. Four of us piled into it heading for Albany on a cold winter day. Albany NY is about 100 or so miles from here. We get down there, did what we were going to do and headed home. Going north on I-787, Jerry hit a bump. At the moment of impact, his seat went through the floor. So there we are... going 70mph in the center lane of an expressway with our driver hanging on to the steering wheel for dear life while whats left of the drivers seat tracks are shedding sparks... I was of course right behind Jerry so I shove his seat up and forward and drop it on my feet. "FIND A FUCKING EXIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" because this shit is hurting. I am getting pelted with salt, sand, whatever coming up through the now gaping how in the floorpan, Jerry's 190lbs are resting directly on my feet assemblies and I am really losing my sense of humor over the whole thing. So we get off in Troy and head to a friends house where we wedge a piece of scrap wood from one corner of the pan to the other to hold the seat up until we get home. I pull a Spicoli and tell everyone in the car that it's ok... 'my dad has an awesome set of tools...' The next day we get to my dads, unbolt whats left of the seat and fold the rubber mat back to weld a brace to the floorpan. My dad, who is an expert at deadpan delivery, looks at the car and shakes his head... "What do you want me to weld to?" from the exhaust tunnel to the rocker channel, the pan was just gone. Swiss cheese. There was nothing left to the car. How it didn't just break in half when we got in the fucking thing was a miracle.
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