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tahoe healey
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How does one get the opportunity to drive when this white stuff keeps falling?
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tahoe healey
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And melt my new tires not to mention my body?
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No, we need the taxes.Keoke said:
Nice thing about where we live - the snow is close if we want to go, but we don't have to live in it.
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Just for that, we are going to melt it all and send it your way. Better put your Healey up on high blocks.
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I know you have had a LOT of snow, but not THAT MUCH! :lol:tahoe healey said:
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Drove my Bugeye in High School through a New England winter in the late 60s. Lots of fun. OK, I lie ... it was a lot of fun inducing power oversteer on deserted country roads with nothing but cranberry bogs to witness the foolishness. Carrying a can of windshield deicer with me to class so I could defreeze the sliding side windows ... not fun. Keeping a drop light under the hood and shooting it up with starting fluid when the temperature got below freezing ... not fun. Scarping ice from the inside of the windshield ... not fun. Where were we now?
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I recall New England winters. Sprayed ether on the carbs to start the Healey I had then. Also would keep a light on the engine to keep it warm. Did I say this was while it was in the garage. Now I remember why I moved to Florida. Then I got the best of the best - north central NM. Not going anywhere.
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judow said:I recall New England winters. Sprayed ether on the carbs to start the Healey I had then. Also would keep a light on the engine to keep it warm. Did I say this was while it was in the garage. Now I remember why I moved to Florida. Then I got the best of the best - north central NM. Not going anywhere.
I wonder how many guys are out there that drove LBCs year-round? In 1967 when I got my Bugeye from my cousin, it was a pretty primitive car. Even though I had a hardtop, weather protection wasn't all that great. It really took a lot of dedication to be a sports car guy back then. Of course, that secret fraternity that included flashing headlights and waves when you saw another LBC coming in the opposite direction helped a bit. It was like saying, "I'm a poor suffering bastard, too!"
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HealeyRick said:judow said:I recall New England winters. Sprayed ether on the carbs to start the Healey I had then. Also would keep a light on the engine to keep it warm. Did I say this was while it was in the garage. Now I remember why I moved to Florida. Then I got the best of the best - north central NM. Not going anywhere.
I wonder how many guys are out there that drove LBCs year-round? In 1967 when I got my Bugeye from my cousin, it was a pretty primitive car. Even though I had a hardtop, weather protection wasn't all that great. It really took a lot of dedication to be a sports car guy back then. Of course, that secret fraternity that included flashing headlights and waves when you saw another LBC coming in the opposite direction helped a bit. It was like saying, "I'm a poor suffering bastard, too!"
We lived in Milford CT. Dad drove his 64 BJ8 everyday. It was his daily driver. All four seasons. I remember the thunder storms and all that snow. I also remember all the rust the car had from the salting of the roads in winter. Let's not forget the musty smell inside the car, from it being wet most of the time. Ah...good times.
I'm not sure how you manage to drive in rain now in the Healey. Got caught out by a sudden storm two weeks ago with the hood down. Hood up quickly but windows steamed up even quicker so impossible to see. That together with the leaks around the windshield, it still takes dedication to be a sports car driver even now but the joy of top down motoring and the admiring glances more than make up for the lack of good weatherproofing.
Ian
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Drove my '54 100-4 from Des Moines to L.A. in 1957. Stopped and slept for 4 hours and woke up to 12 inches of snow between Winslow and Flagstaff. Needless to say I made a run for it and plowed my way down to a lower elevation before I ran out of it. Dicey! And yes, that was my only driver. Eighteen hundred miles with no service, mechanics, or common sense. But who knows the difference or even cares when you're young and have an early love of a Healey. P.S. There were no interstate highways.
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Rossco, that beats my experience last year. Coming home from the Fall Classic( which was constant rain) we drove 200 miles in heavy rain and 30 more in snow on the way home. Leaked a little but took out the carpet and used a fan for a few days. Hair drier on the inside of the "B" pillars. These cars run well in rain and snow. I just don't trust the other guy with the SUV and bald tires.
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IanIrving said:
I just learned the secret last week in the video interview of Gerry Coker. You wear a raincoat backwards while driving in the rain. Even his wife agreed.
