It's been cold, I mean below zero cold here the last few days. Snow and ice, enough salt to turn the great lakes into saltwater lakes. I never expected to see a car like this out today.
It's been cold, I mean below zero cold here the last few days. Snow and ice, enough salt to turn the great lakes into saltwater lakes. I never expected to see a car like this out today.
Turbos love the cold.
I think he is one brave SOB and I want to go next
there used to be a tubbed out yellow 55 Chevy with a blown big block with the appropriate dual Holleys and bug catcher scoop that i'd see tooling around Buffalo, MN in the dead of winter. the car must not have had a heater, because the guy was always bundled up really good.. last time i saw that car was sometime in the late 90's- '98 or '99 or thereabouts..
It looks like it caught fire and someone put it out with a fire extinguisher.
daily driver probably broke.
It's probably white underneath all the filth...
I've seen a guy cruising in a 70s Gran Torino recently. I swear I could see it rusting.
Really though, off the boost, it's probably a totally doable DD in the winter. Proper set of winter tires, and as long as it doesn't have a welded diff or something crazy- it should be fine. Probably gets halfway decent MPG too.
My bet is that his other car(s) are frozen and won't start. Must be fun to drive when you can't see out of the windshield. Is that oil on the right firewall?
Yesterday morning as I was plodding through the snow behind a couple poorly driven Jeeps we finally hit a straight relativly wide section of parkway and a newer 911 pulled out and passed us. The jeeps slowed so I was able to follow past and we were able to move along. I have seen him before and i'm pretty sure it's a Carrera 4 and it had to have snow tires but I was still surprised to see a Porsche out in 5 inches of unplowed snow.
Maybe he's out tuning the cold start map? 
aircooled wrote: It looks like it caught fire and someone put it out with a fire extinguisher.
No that is road salt for those outside the rust belt.
ncjay wrote: My bet is that his other car(s) are frozen and won't start. Must be fun to drive when you can't see out of the windshield. Is that oil on the right firewall?
I thought the same thing about the salt-encrusted windshield too. I don't think that's oil, I think that's actually water that splashed off the right front tire, no fender liners on this either. It sounded AMAZING!
novaderrik wrote: there used to be a tubbed out yellow 55 Chevy with a blown big block with the appropriate dual Holleys and bug catcher scoop that i'd see tooling around Buffalo, MN in the dead of winter. the car must not have had a heater, because the guy was always bundled up really good.. last time i saw that car was sometime in the late 90's- '98 or '99 or thereabouts..
Just reminded me of this.
And now I have "I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rain" stuck in my head. 
The other day I seen a white old car and had to follow it home, kt turned out to be a one year make 49 buick special in very nice shape. The owner had have had it for 20 years.
mndsm wrote: Really though, off the boost, it's probably a totally doable DD in the winter. Proper set of winter tires, and as long as it doesn't have a welded diff or something crazy- it should be fine. Probably gets halfway decent MPG too.
Having driven the naturally aspirated version of that car in the snow - they're not great winter cars. Thirsty around town, too. However, I fully approve of this one being out.
Salty cars like that make me happy that I'm back in Florida this Winter. And that turbo has more displacement than my Civic I think.
Keith Tanner wrote:mndsm wrote: Really though, off the boost, it's probably a totally doable DD in the winter. Proper set of winter tires, and as long as it doesn't have a welded diff or something crazy- it should be fine. Probably gets halfway decent MPG too.Having driven the naturally aspirated version of that car in the snow - they're not great winter cars. Thirsty around town, too. However, I fully approve of this one being out.
I agree with Keith. My Camaro was rather crappy in the snow even with snow tires. I wonder if he is testing out some new snow slicks.
A blown LS7 Snowplow is an awesome idea!
I had a gtr follow me into work today through snow AND ice.
ROB R.
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