WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
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10/18/22 05:36 PM
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CLEANED, FULL OF FUEL [GALLON OF RACE GAS ADDED TO EACH ON LAST DRIVE].. TIRES AT 50 PSI..BATTERIES OUT... SUCKS..BUT IN SEATTLE ITS A 3 MONTH SEASON IF WE ARE LUCKY..
FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I HAVE MORE GARAGE THAN CARS... 9 MONTHS TO WAIT NOW..
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Re: WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
[Re: ph23vo]
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10/18/22 06:08 PM
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I could never wait 9 months. But they do say time flys as you get older.
It really doesn't matter whether you win or lose… as long as you look good doing it!
‘65 A100 ‘69 ‘Cuda ‘73 Vega GT ‘06 Mega Cab ‘14 Mercedes SLK
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Re: WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
[Re: BloFish]
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10/18/22 08:20 PM
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I could never wait 9 months. But they do say time flys as you get older. SADLY IT DOES FLY...BUT 9 MONTHS IS FOREVER WHEN ITS GRAY AND DARK OUTSIDE.... HOPE TO BE BACK SOUTH BY END OF NEXT SUMMER
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Re: WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
[Re: BloFish]
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10/19/22 07:02 AM
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Mine usually doesn't get driven unless I have to move it out of the garage. If I have to move it I will go drive it regardless of the temp as long as the roads are clear. I don't like to start it unless I can get it to operating temp. Its amazing how much condensation gets in the motor on a short start in cold weather.
We have crazy winters in Oklahoma, it can be negative temps one week and 70 degrees that weekend. The downside is they salt the roads pretty heavy if we get bad road conditions.
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Re: WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
[Re: DynoDave]
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10/20/22 11:42 AM
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Same here. The weather is getting colder, days are getting shorter. Time to prepare for winter building season. I've got a list on mine that needs to be addressed after a great year of driving. Edit - starting with the blown-out radiator that put the car in the garage about a week early. ![rant rant](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/rant.gif)
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Re: WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
[Re: moparmarks]
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10/21/22 08:45 PM
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": WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION"
A phrase members from SoCal will never have to use. Or here either. Drive them all year. I drive mine year round
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Re: WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
[Re: ph23vo]
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10/22/22 08:46 AM
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Here in southern Illinois, it is hardly a paradise. But today is supposed to be a nearly perfect day, near 80 and sunny. There is a little Mopar oriented get together an hour or so south of us. Several of us will caravan down and spend the day cooking out and talking Mopar and some other things. Just a fun relaxing day with friends. Really looking forward to it.
We are just far enough south that I don't have to put the Cuda in moth balls. Every few weeks through the winter, there is usually a day or so that is warm and dry enough that I can get the Cuda out, drive it a bit, and put some fresh gas in it. Just enough to keep it limbered up and fresh.
Master, again and still
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Re: WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
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10/23/22 12:55 PM
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I live about 3 hours north of you. On 12 -24-2021 it was a great day, so I took the car out for a 50 mile drive. Perfect. WE SOMETIMES GET SOME GOOD WEATHER...[SEATTLE] I WILL TAKE THEM OUT IF WE HAVE A 3-4 DAY GOOD FORECAST..OTHERWISE THEY STAY HIBERNATED.. TOO MUCH WORK CLEANING THEM TO PUT BACK IN A DAY..YOU GUYS SEEM TO HAVE MUCH MORE INCIDENCE OF NICE WEATHER THAN HERE [OCEANS]
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Re: WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
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10/23/22 01:40 PM
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I live about 3 hours north of you. On 12 -24-2021 it was a great day, so I took the car out for a 50 mile drive. Perfect. WE SOMETIMES GET SOME GOOD WEATHER...[SEATTLE] I WILL TAKE THEM OUT IF WE HAVE A 3-4 DAY GOOD FORECAST..OTHERWISE THEY STAY HIBERNATED.. TOO MUCH WORK CLEANING THEM TO PUT BACK IN A DAY..YOU GUYS SEEM TO HAVE MUCH MORE INCIDENCE OF NICE WEATHER THAN HERE [OCEANS] I’m two hours east of you on Chinook pass now. 6 car garage and 4 cars. 250ish days of sun but the winter snowfall is normally brutal Jan and Feb.
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Re: WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
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10/23/22 02:33 PM
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I live about 3 hours north of you. On 12 -24-2021 it was a great day, so I took the car out for a 50 mile drive. Perfect. WE SOMETIMES GET SOME GOOD WEATHER...[SEATTLE] I WILL TAKE THEM OUT IF WE HAVE A 3-4 DAY GOOD FORECAST..OTHERWISE THEY STAY HIBERNATED.. TOO MUCH WORK CLEANING THEM TO PUT BACK IN A DAY..YOU GUYS SEEM TO HAVE MUCH MORE INCIDENCE OF NICE WEATHER THAN HERE [OCEANS] I’m two hours east of you on Chinook pass now. 6 car garage and 4 cars. 250ish days of sun but the winter snowfall is normally brutal Jan and Feb. Had a weather pattern change this past Friday night/Saturday morning . . . damn system parked over us, and has DUMPED 20cm (8 inches) of snow on us here. Glad I tucked everything away and been ready for this . . . UGGHHH - worst of it, is that the temp is around 0-2C (32-34F) and it's that damn WET SLOPPY COASTAL type snow - not the light fluffly powder we normally get . . . spent 2hrs shovelling yesterday !! . . . and now for today and rest of next week, temps coming back to normal and sunshine . . .
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Re: WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
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10/23/22 03:21 PM
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I live about 3 hours north of you. On 12 -24-2021 it was a great day, so I took the car out for a 50 mile drive. Perfect. WE SOMETIMES GET SOME GOOD WEATHER...[SEATTLE] I WILL TAKE THEM OUT IF WE HAVE A 3-4 DAY GOOD FORECAST..OTHERWISE THEY STAY HIBERNATED.. TOO MUCH WORK CLEANING THEM TO PUT BACK IN A DAY..YOU GUYS SEEM TO HAVE MUCH MORE INCIDENCE OF NICE WEATHER THAN HERE [OCEANS] I’m two hours east of you on Chinook pass now. 6 car garage and 4 cars. 250ish days of sun but the winter snowfall is normally brutal Jan and Feb. I AM MOVING SOUTH AGAIN PROB END OF NEXT SUMMER...SO NO MORE SNOW OR COLD FOR ME...EVER..
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Re: WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
[Re: ph23vo]
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10/23/22 08:20 PM
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cruise season is getting going full swing now.
I had the car out today for a really nice cruise to help a buddy put the engine/trans in his today.
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Re: WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
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10/24/22 01:57 AM
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": WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION"
A phrase members from SoCal will never have to use. Or here either. Drive them all year. "Back in the day" they were for the majority full time daily drivers in all parts of North America. I bought my first car in 1969 a '69 Road Runner in April of '69 and by November '69 I was having snow tires put on. I lived in Western PA outside or southeast of Pittsburgh and it had all the elements that Detroit cars just loved, snow, salt, rain, and hills. Had 3.91 Suregrip and full on snow tires as there were no "all season" tires (think all season tires were not until late '70's or there abouts??) and besides most cars were rear wheel drive and with "summer" tires you were just a chicane on the hill for others shooting the hill with real snow tires. Great sport. Tried to get to the 25 cent car wash as often as possible to get the salt off but the lower rear quarters on the RR only lasted about 3 or 4 years or snow/salt seasons. My GTX right now has close to 100,000 miles on the odo and it spent the majority of its life in first, So. Cal then New Mexico and then El Paso, TX so I try not to get salt on it but still take it out if it's not too bad during late fall sometimes in winter and then early spring. I took it out yesterday and on the way home I stopped at the $2.00 ( ![frown frown](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/frown.gif) ) self-car wash because you can't break old habits ![laugh2 laugh2](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/laugh2.gif) And as again from old habits I also washed the engine. ![grin grin](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/grin.gif) Some of you "heater delete" girly guys and you run away to warm weather retirees need to stop dissing on us too dumb to move south, love where we live 60% of the time you old cold farts. Do we diss on you for having weather that cracks the dash pads and damages the interiors and is worse when driving with no air conditioning than with the heater on? ![laugh2 laugh2](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/laugh2.gif) Adversity breeds character I was told. ![wink wink](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/wink.gif) (BTW should my hood pop up spring be painted, natural or some kind of plating like the hood latch? ![shruggy shruggy](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/shruggy.gif) thanks) Mike
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Re: WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
[Re: gtx6970]
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10/24/22 10:19 AM
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Mike, You could always become a snowbird.
There are a bunch of old farts out here that only come down from Dec to April
OR ,,,send it out to me. I stretch its legs for you in the winter
ps, hood spring is black phosphate Not retired yet, many years to go, but looking to make the move from Lexington to AZ soon. Love it out there.
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10/24/22 01:49 PM
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the first winter i had my charger, [1972] i had white letter McCreary L70-15 lug snow tires mounted on 15x10 chrome reverse wheels. looked good, didn't go in the snow. the car got parked every winter after, and $25.00 beaters [remember those ? ![biggrin biggrin](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/biggrin.gif) ] were run, then retired to my junkyard when they were used up. ![beer beer](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/beer.gif)
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10/24/22 02:36 PM
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As soon as I got away from my parents house, I always had a $25 beater! I needed one to get back and forth to work on most Monday mornings. Weekends were tough on Road Runner parts ![drive drive](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/custom/drive.gif) I pretty much had one full stall of the 3 car garage I rented full of broken Mopar parts. That continuous search for replacement parts developed into a pretty good side business. The beater car to get to work just carried on through the winter. Life was pretty god for this guy through his 20s.
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Re: WELL ITS THAT TIME AGAIN... CARS PUT IN HIBERNATION
[Re: ph23vo]
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Had to chuckle to myself over this thread, and one of life's weather ironies. Here In Pasadena, Tx the summers can be hellishly hot and humid. I usually don't drive in the months of July, August, and maybe September especially after a summer like this past one. With no a/c, headers dumping in massive amount of heat into the interior, the car is a veritable sweatbox. But I can relate to you guys putting cars up for the winter. I'm originally from LI, NY, and spent 2 winters in Vermont. No matter, drive the old iron when you can.
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[Re: fal3]
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10/25/22 10:29 AM
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After I had my 74 Duster360 redone in 1986, I bought a "winter beater" - was a 74 4dr dart, 318 car. It was running on 7 cylinders - pulled valve cover - yup, had pushrod thru one rocker ! Grabbed a rocker out of parts bin, and the 318 was GOLD (135psi on all cylinders) !! . . . car had 4 different tires on it, changed to 4 good tires I got from neighbor and did brakes all round, added factory cruise control . . . was awesome car ! Was all into it for $475 !! LOL . . . oh the good ole days. Is there anything such as "winter beater" anymore ?? Certainly not under $1k ?? . . .
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