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It rained on New Year's day in Edmonton in 1969, and then the temperature went all to heck. Notice what is encased in the ice cube in the lower left (well, not a precise rendition, but.....). Temperatures are in Fahrenheit. Warmest day in that interval was -6F. I was in 4th year engineering and I knew it was cold, but it was winter, and winter was supposed to be cold. However, back in these 'good old days', girls were supposed to wear skirts/dresses to high school, and jeans were forbidden. Forecast low for Edmonton this Friday is -40 C/F; -39C/-38F here in Calgary. And significantly colder outside of the cities. Our BJ7 is tucked away in a Car Capsule, protected, but at ambient temperature. I'll apologize to it in a couple of months.... Doug
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carrying my horse. In the driving rain!
 
twas_brillig said:
It rained on New Year's day in Edmonton in 1969, and then the temperature went all to heck. Notice what is encased in the ice cube in the lower left (well, not a precise rendition, but.....). Temperatures are in Fahrenheit. Warmest day in that interval was -6F. I was in 4th year engineering and I knew it was cold, but it was winter, and winter was supposed to be cold. However, back in these 'good old days', girls were supposed to wear skirts/dresses to high school, and jeans were forbidden. Forecast low for Edmonton this Friday is -40 C/F; -39C/-38F here in Calgary. And significantly colder outside of the cities. Our BJ7 is tucked away in a Car Capsule, protected, but at ambient temperature. I'll apologize to it in a couple of months.... Doug
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That’s summer temperatures in Antarctica.
 
How many of us drove our Healeys in winter? 1968 in high school with a '59 Bugeye. Drop light under the hood to keep it warm. Heated oil dipstick. DeIcer spray to open the sliding plexiglass windows, starter fluid squirted in the SUs, sometimes jumper cables when the battery wore down. Windshield scraper for the inside of the windshield when frost formed. Snow tires on the back and a non-factory hardtop just to keep it cozy. Good times, Once you got it going though, it was a lot of fun slip, slidin' away!
 
Our only car in the early 70s was a Bugeye and it was the winter and summer vehicle- summer you couldn't go too far as the oil pressure would go away. Winter it was just the soft top and the biggest battery we could fit in. Paying the mortgage down was more important than it should have been to us back then. We've still got the BE (but haven't driven it for many years - someday we'll get it out of storage though!). Doug
 
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