Donuts!

To go with the coffee thread! Honestly, is there anything better than the sheer simple joy of donuts in an empty parking lot? Of course, I could also file it under "research", cough, ahem, since it's the first snowfall and I had to um, see what the traction limits were, right? God, I love counter-steering into a lovely sustained drift.

This makes my Tim Bits firm.

I haz new wall paper for work now. Thanx u! (yes, I work at a Porsche dealer)

We got that snow too. Stupid chick in a Jetta made me 10 minutes late for work.

In reply to jrw1621:

"Nine girls with Timbits" sounds like part of a Christmas carol.

Give the Double Double to the ones in stripes.

Lesley, I love you! Why oh why must I be so happily married to a non-car girl???

Slightly off topic, I had the best donut ever last week - key lime pie donut. I'm drooling a little just thinking about it.

Why indeed!

Loving this car so far. I've driven it before (same car even!) at Mosport. But never driven one in the ice and snow. It's turns like it's mounted on a swivel, it's easy to slide the rear end – but just as easy to get it back. There's a lot of communication, both through the wheel and the very stiff body, so you know exactly where the slippery bits are.

Lesley wrote: There's a lot of communication...........and the very stiff body, so you know exactly where the slippery bits are.

And this is where I call it a night before getting myself into trouble.

That's the downside of living in the Durty Durty South; very rarely do we get a chance to hoon in the snow.

^^^ I am SO glad I am done breakfast!

Way to go Lesley, not everyone would think to do snow donuts in a porsche, I love it

Now that's a cool picture (of the coolest Porsche). Thanks Lesley!

Curmudgeon wrote: That's the downside of living in the Durty Durty South; very rarely do we get a chance to hoon in the snow.

We don't get much of a chance up here, either. Too many conga-lines of people tailgating while driving 25mph. (Slower is safer, right? And slower means you can follow closer, right? Damn idjits might as well be chaining their bumpers together)

But when things are right, yeah it's a lot of fun. I used to have a Golf and four Blizzaks. I remember one "spirited drive" where I had an inch of compacted snow on the whole rear face of the thing. Was raising a huge roostertail hauling ass down the highway. I'd been hitting speeds of up to 75mph on 8" or so of snow on the as-yet-uncleared roads... woulda gone faster but that was flat out. Takes a lot of effort to punch through snow, shifting to 4th would just make the car slow down.

Man I miss that car

Snow just gives me a good excuse to drive the truck to work.

thats one thing we have always done on snow days with my daughter, get some donuts, after doing some donuts

N Sperlo wrote: Snow just gives me a good excuse to drive like a hoon.

Fixed.

N Sperlo wrote: Snow just gives me a good excuse to drive the truck to work like a hoon.

REALLY fixed.

it's been a long time since I really "drove" in the snow..

two times I remember fondly.. was the day after a blizzard hit and the whole of south jersey was under a "snow emergancy" with everything shut down, nobody allowed out.. I had a press pass and an "essential personal" card from the radio station I worked at.. so I was out "reporting" by driving my old excel as fast as I could on on the "clearned" but not compleatly plowed roads. Like with the golf story, I was throwing huge rooster tails on a county highway that had long sweeping curves.. great fun.

Second time was coming back from philly. Was in the middle of a job that got cancelled. We literally got 6 inches of snow in an hour. I had to go back to reading pa.. so I was in the "fast" lane of the Pa turnpike, driving in the unmarked snow, doing 60 while everyone else was barely able to do 40 in the ruts that were in the slow lane... great fun

I remember a time in my dumb and younger days of travelling back from somewhere on the southern burbs of Chicago and getting hit with a nice big lake effect snow storm on my drive back around Lake Michigan. Midnight and 65mph in a 2wd F250 on what had to be 6" deep snow on the freeway. IF I were to have stopped, I would not have been able to get going again. It was so bad, the plows quit plowing until the snow tapered off, which was about 4am or so IIRC.

Lesley, can you tell if the doors are just skinned in aluminum or if the frames are aluminum as well?

"Normal" Cayman doors feel really heavy.

Thanks.

Ranger50 wrote: I remember a time in my dumb and younger days of travelling back from somewhere on the southern burbs of Chicago and getting hit with a nice big lake effect snow storm on my drive back around Lake Michigan. Midnight and 65mph in a 2wd F250 on what had to be 6" deep snow on the freeway. IF I were to have stopped, I would not have been able to get going again. It was so bad, the plows quit plowing until the snow tapered off, which was about 4am or so IIRC.

I have been there too. Moved a friend and family from NJ to Ok. (she was from there) and driving a 24 foot penske truck towing a 12 foot uhaul trailer.. we got hit with a blizzard in West Virgina. As we hit each county, they were turning on their "chains required" signs.. it was so bad I was driving by GPS so I would know where the turns were. Heavy Snow, nighttime, and being in an unfamilier state made driving a real challenge.

when my friend suggested stopping.. I told him that if we stopped.. we would not be moving for a couple days.. Once we hit ohio.. it was like it had never snowed

Pretty sure just the door skins are aluminum. They sure ain't stuffed with heavy insulation – this car is raw! Drove most of the day, did some winding, hilly roads through country - damn this thing handles well. Even when it's squirmy, it's totally controllable. They're gonna have to pry the keys from my hand on this one...

Appleseed wrote:

N Sperlo wrote: Snow just gives me a good excuse to drive like a hoon.

Fixed.

You want snow hoonage?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4966207461467100899#

Almost makes me wish I lived up there.

Almost.