FWIW, the original inspiration for the club New Year's Day drive was 1/1/2000, more commonly known as Y2K. There was a huge amount of concern at the time that many computer programs did not correctly handle Y2K (since the year was frequently stored as only two digits, meaning Y2K went back to year 00), and much wild talk of civilization collapsing because none of the computers would work (including cars, cash registers, power grid, ATM machines and so on). So the original concept was "Y2K Don't Bug Me", to prove that our cars run without computers. On that run, we deliberately went up into the mountains to visit the snow. About 25F where we stopped for lunch, and perhaps 4" of snow in the parking lot. Rather memorable to me, since then (as now), I had no heater, no side curtains, and no top. My daughter (who was 12 at the time) remembers it too!
Julius, why is it you only come to events I miss?? Was it something I said?