1980s American Cars, Guns, Gadgets and Consumer Goods [Atmosphere, look, minutiae]

Kalzazz · 03-21-2016, 12:17 PM

Would Crown Royal be a thing?

From my memories of snow driving as a child (in NE Ohio snow was very popular) I am amazed people survived . . . . traveling over snow and ice was less a matter of specialized technology than it was people simply not bothering to acknowledge that their car had any deficiencies, of course your RWD Camaro is the ideal winter commuter

Aside from the general disappearance of convertibles and motorcycles the vehicles that you saw in winter were the same ones you saw in summer

One of my more vivid winter driving memories of that time period involved my dad taking me to school in our old 74 GMC pickup, a hill was iced over and we watched cars get partway up then slide back down, so my dad turned our truck around, drove back away, then turned back to the hill and charged it with the truck floored so we hit the base of the hill with the speedometer pegged and powered all the way up and over

03-21-2016, 12:17 PM	#11
Kalzazz Join Date: Feb 2009	Re: 1980s American Cars, Guns, Gadgets and Consumer Goods [Atmosphere, look, minutiae Would Crown Royal be a thing? From my memories of snow driving as a child (in NE Ohio snow was very popular) I am amazed people survived . . . . traveling over snow and ice was less a matter of specialized technology than it was people simply not bothering to acknowledge that their car had any deficiencies, of course your RWD Camaro is the ideal winter commuter Aside from the general disappearance of convertibles and motorcycles the vehicles that you saw in winter were the same ones you saw in summer One of my more vivid winter driving memories of that time period involved my dad taking me to school in our old 74 GMC pickup, a hill was iced over and we watched cars get partway up then slide back down, so my dad turned our truck around, drove back away, then turned back to the hill and charged it with the truck floored so we hit the base of the hill with the speedometer pegged and powered all the way up and over