Cold day ruminations
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Talking of cold days was wondering if anybody had some good driving the GMC in snow stories. I seemed to remember someone said the put cable chains
on theirs and took it skiing in the rockies. I always wondered. When I first got mine and stored it up by a fishing and skiing lake, I went up there
on a snow day and tried it out on the snow covered country roads where no was driving. Seemed to do pretty well but they were fairly flat roads with
some gentle hills.
Tom
76 Eleganza 2
Kansas City, Mo
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Tom Geiger
76 Eleganza II
KCMO
on theirs and took it skiing in the rockies. I always wondered. When I first got mine and stored it up by a fishing and skiing lake, I went up there
on a snow day and tried it out on the snow covered country roads where no was driving. Seemed to do pretty well but they were fairly flat roads with
some gentle hills.
Tom
76 Eleganza 2
Kansas City, Mo
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Tom Geiger
76 Eleganza II
KCMO
I take mine out hunting the first couple weeks in November in MN. About an hour drive north east on pretty flat roads. There has been a few times
that trip has been after a recent snow, and when it is icy, it is downright scary. I am not talking about snow, I am talking about right after the
plow came through, or other vehicles have driven on it and smoothed it out to a pretty slick surface. I am used to driving in all sorts of
conditions in many other vehicles, but the GMC was not a very nice feeling ride on ice. when the back gets blown you just don't have a good feel for
the road, ulike other vehicles. Stopping is also very unpredictable. I also learned very quickly any ice covered inclines were something to
really pay attention to. You do not want to stop while you are pointed uphill. You will not get any forward momentum and tires will spin in place.
When that lesson was learned, luckily no one behind me so I could back up and get a run up the incline. It did not take much of an incline to cause
no way of starting forward momentum on the ice.
sometimes I would rather drive through 1 foot of snow, then drive on a recently plowed road.
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Jon Roche
75 palm beach
EBL EFI, manny headers, Micro Level, rebuilt most of coach now.
St. Cloud, MN
http://lqqkatjon.blogspot.com/
that trip has been after a recent snow, and when it is icy, it is downright scary. I am not talking about snow, I am talking about right after the
plow came through, or other vehicles have driven on it and smoothed it out to a pretty slick surface. I am used to driving in all sorts of
conditions in many other vehicles, but the GMC was not a very nice feeling ride on ice. when the back gets blown you just don't have a good feel for
the road, ulike other vehicles. Stopping is also very unpredictable. I also learned very quickly any ice covered inclines were something to
really pay attention to. You do not want to stop while you are pointed uphill. You will not get any forward momentum and tires will spin in place.
When that lesson was learned, luckily no one behind me so I could back up and get a run up the incline. It did not take much of an incline to cause
no way of starting forward momentum on the ice.
sometimes I would rather drive through 1 foot of snow, then drive on a recently plowed road.
--
Jon Roche
75 palm beach
EBL EFI, manny headers, Micro Level, rebuilt most of coach now.
St. Cloud, MN
http://lqqkatjon.blogspot.com/
