Thinking SPRING

[Michael A.]

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Whats that in real temperatures?

Don - That's real freakin cold in any temp.

But if you must know it would be about -6F if my math is right.

Cheers
Mike

[Michael A.]

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Terry,
-40C = -40F That's cold no matter what.

too many years working in Europe, Africa and the Middle East converting C to F and back again! It's a sickness.

Cheers
Mike

[Mark K.]

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Yep, those are the numbers. Coldest I ever was in was -36 F in the UP of Michigan. The warmest it was for 10 days was -25. I spent the longest year of my life up there, but both weeks of summer were very nice.

BTW: Last week the interior of Alaska was a -70* F -- NOT wind chill, that was the real temperature. Even Anchorage was colder than -40* I have a non-Corvette friend who moved up there at the end of summer.

And to think that there was an article today published by some scientists in Russia that suggest that their research at Vostok station indicates that the higher CO2 in the air is suggesting another ice age rather than global warming. I'd rather have the global warming.

[Stuart F.]

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Having spent a number of years in SEA (7.6), you would think I would know degrees celcious (what ever) better, but it was always so damned hot, the last thing you needed to know was how hot.

All I know now, in Orlando, it is nice in the low 70's F, and I feel good. Whether the top is up or down is just dependent on how I feel that day. Watching the news about the weather up North makes me gloat a little. Well! I'm only human!

Stu Fox

[Tom L.]

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Never too much time in the garage...and that engine running thing, that's one of the things that makes us how we are!

[Matthew M.]

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Spring? I can barely see across the street it is snowing so hard right now. But thats life in Canada eh?

[Grant M.]

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Snowing here in Ottawa right now as well and expected to get down to near -20 tonight (guess I won't take the convertible out for a spin). Just read on MSN that the roof of a muscle car museum collapsed there under the snow load and crushed nine 1960s-1970s cars. No mention of Corvettes.

All this talk of winter weather makes me think back to the days when I had my first car bought new, a 1971 Camaro. As a newly-working 20 year old I certainly couldn't afford (nor was the concept thought of at the time) a "winter beater" vehicle, so I drove my one car year 'round. So did a lot of muscle car and even some Corvette owners in the days when younger people were able to scrape enough savings together to buy a new 'muscle car'. In fact our 1978 Corvette (bought used--we were the third owners) had been after-market rust-proofed by the original owner, presumably because he drove it all year; what a shame!

Nowadays I see a fair number of Porsches, Mercedes SLKs and Audis (even retractable hardtops--can you imagine what road salt will do to the mechanism and contacts?), out in the snow here in Ottawa, but the explanation is somewhat different from the reason I (had) to drive my car all year: for the most part, these are leased vehicles and the drivers have no intention of keeping them longer than a year or two. I watched neighbours of mine go through two BMWs, a Volvo, a Porsche Boxster and an SLK all in the space of the seven years I lived across the street. They may have taken a hit at lease return, but not likely. Although car corrosion protection is at an all-time high lately, the effect of salt in some of the hard to reach areas will eventually take its toll (on the subsequent owners).

You southerners enjoy your (relatively) balmy winter weather....

[Matthew M.]

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We just sold a Cadillac with power retractable running boards, that should be a nightmare for the guys in service in a couple of years. Speaking of winter driven I went to look at 75 coupe a friend of mine was interested in. Original owner paper work for every cent ever spent on the car. Climbed under it to find a frame that looked like swiss cheese. After this discovery the owner proudly pronounced that he had driven the 365 days a year since new.

[Scott S.]

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...the owner proudly pronounced that he had driven the 365 days a year since new.

There's a badge of honour.

btw... -24C this morning, going up to a balmy -17C this afternoon.