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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 06:58 AM
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AHHH dammit! We got a good 2-3 inches of snow and ice here this morning, my car wouldnt even get down the street and straight lines are out of the question!

Of course got caught without my snow tires on so the car isnt going anywhere today going to be missing at least one of my classes today.

This is going to be a long winter....
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 07:17 AM
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No snow at all up here by be.
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 07:53 AM
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ok now its starting to snow
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 08:01 AM
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Got about a 1/2 of snow right now in Naperville
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 08:06 AM
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I drove mine through five Winters on the stock tires without any issues. The only time I got stuck was in the Church parking lot (parked on ice that melted and the car sunk). I am glad that I have the truck now though...
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 08:43 AM
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Thats why it is a good investment to buy a winter beater. Use a small percentage of your mod money to buy a POS.
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 08:44 AM
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Hopefully this will be the last winter the car sees I am really wanting to invest in a beater after seeing the way this thing handles the snow.

I got the snow boots on it though, I'll get some pictures up soon
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 09:14 AM
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Got maybe .75 to an inch in Chicago, nothing crazy yet, but it's still snowing.
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 09:19 AM
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I'm about 30 miles south of Chicago and got roughly just under 3 inches.
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 09:20 AM
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Dicked. Let's hope this one's short.
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 12:42 PM
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Less than an inch up here in Gurnee where I work.....

Snow =
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 01:21 PM
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Nice and dry here! Cloudy but dry
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 02:19 PM
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Yep dry here as well, but its ok even if it does snow because I have a beater and the car is going into storage today. Winter is only an excuse to tear my car apart and do some internals.
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 03:40 PM
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yea it sucked this morning going to work in the bird. and it wasn't anything major but face it our cars suck in the snow.
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 03:40 PM
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can't wait to fix my beater truck to whip some donuts
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Moparnos (The SLP Guy)
can't wait to fix my beater truck to whip some donuts
I think I will have to do some donuts w/the suburban
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by ImportPatrolWS6
Thats why it is a good investment to buy a winter beater. Use a small percentage of your mod money to buy a POS.

AMEN!!! the century can't wait to go sideways.... its been begging for it all year
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by SgtB
I think I will have to do some donuts w/the suburban

We took a buddies suburban out last year in 4wd. Talk about some FUN donuts
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 06:39 PM
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had some problems with the old beater sold it, spend the money on exhaust, now i have to drive the Z in the snow, man if it wasnt for ASR i dont know how i would got gotten to work this morning, i want another beater, hell the 87 Camaro did better in the snow than the Z, then again it didnt have as much power and with an open diff it didnt fishtail as easy
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Old Dec 1, 2005 | 06:58 PM
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Me and a couple buddies took out teh beaters last weekend when it snowed and fucked around. My friend yanked teh E brake on his 05 monte carlo and slid into a sign, honestly the kid is a complete dumbass so I couldn't help but laugh.
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