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Keith D
Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Posts: 1129 Location: Upper Swan, Western Australia
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 3:12 am Post subject: Runs in inclement weather |
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While you folk in the northern hemisphere suffer the cold of winter, we have the opposite down here. Although it can be just as unpleasant.
Yesterday was our local club run for Sunday morning coffee in Bindoon. A 100 km return drive for me. I had planned on using the '26 Chrysler. However, when the temperature topped out at 44 degrees Celsius, I became a coward and drove up there in the air conditioned modern! The Chrysler would have been OK with the temperature, but the passengers wouldn't have been!
Keith _________________ 1926 Chrysler 60 tourer
1932 Austin Seven RN long wheelbase box sedan
1950 Austin A40 tourer
1999 BMW Z3
Its weird being the same age as old people.
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roverdriver
Joined: 18 Oct 2008 Posts: 1210 Location: 100 miles from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:01 am Post subject: |
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When I had my Model A Ford Tudor Sedan, I was often out and about in hot weather. Just have the windows wound down and the windscreen open just a little to get as much airflow as possible.
In cold weather, on a lengthy run, even though there was no actual heater fitted, the car warmed up nicely via the four cylinder heater up front. On hot days, that engine heat added to the that from the outside air.
Once I had a thermometer with me recording 121 degrees F. That was rather cosy! _________________ Dane- roverdriver but not a Viking. |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7119 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:10 am Post subject: |
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I still vividly recall a trip on business in a taxi in Boston (Mass.) in very hot weather. The cab didn't have aircon so I wound the window down to put my hand into the slipstream but soon retracted it as it felt just like an oven!
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon |
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mikeC
Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 1775 Location: Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:18 am Post subject: |
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I don't think I have ever experienced temperatures as high as 30°, never mind 40°+! This is my idea of inclement weather:
_________________ in the garage: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
Recently departed: 1953 Lancia Appia, 1931 Austin Seven, 1967 Singer Chamois, 1914 Saxon, 1930 Morris Cowley, 1936 BSA Scout, 1958 Lancia Appia coupe, 1922 Star 11.9 ... the list goes on! |
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emmerson
Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 1268 Location: South East Wales
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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I live in Wales, so almost every run is in inclement weather! |
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3819 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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I recall returning from a vehicle run in one of my old trucks, there was a huge storm, thunder/lightening and very heavy rain. The main reason I remember it is due to the fact the wipers completely packed up and I had to stick my hand out the window with a cloth to wipe it, we got soaked! _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 4:25 am Post subject: |
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Sometimes there just isn't a choice. On our international rallies you just have to carry on to get to the next hotel. Many's the time I have parked up under a bridge on the hard shoulder or pavement because the rain was so hard the wipers couldn't cope. Oh - and stuck in snow in July at St. Moritz! |
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4759 Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
Having said it is soft southerners that have problems, I have just spent 2 and a hallf hours travelling 4.5 mls; OK it was a glazed surface after about an inch of snow, but I didn't have problems moving in 1st and 2nd on tickover so why was everybody else using bootfulls of throttle and wagging the front and rear of their vehicles all over the place?
If they hadn't been there I could have done it in about half an hour, or may be less without any drama. _________________ Bristols should always come in pairs.
Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
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mikeC
Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 1775 Location: Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:16 am Post subject: |
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Too many people have been brought up believing the Jeremy Clarkson way is the only way to drive _________________ in the garage: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
Recently departed: 1953 Lancia Appia, 1931 Austin Seven, 1967 Singer Chamois, 1914 Saxon, 1930 Morris Cowley, 1936 BSA Scout, 1958 Lancia Appia coupe, 1922 Star 11.9 ... the list goes on! |
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roverdriver
Joined: 18 Oct 2008 Posts: 1210 Location: 100 miles from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 6:55 am Post subject: |
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Penman, Although we don't have much, if any, ice to deal with here, we have drivers with that same unaccountable mentality when it comes to slippery mud. I have never understood why, when it is obvious that a slow turning wheel will give traction and a over-powered fast one will just slip. _________________ Dane- roverdriver but not a Viking. |
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Norseman
Joined: 09 Jan 2019 Posts: 78 Location: Essex UK
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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Penman wrote: | Hi
I didn't have problems moving in 1st and 2nd on tickover so why was everybody else using bootfulls of throttle and wagging the front and rear of their vehicles all over the place? . |
Back in the mid 'seventies I had a similar experience whilst driving a Green Line coach. On two separate occasions, out of all the cars mine was the only vehicle to make it up a snow/ice covered hill by driving in the same manner, with a semi-auto transmission. _________________ 1987 classic Range Rover Vouge
1998 E39 523i SE sedan
A great many models have served me well since the 'sixties, all of them old & some even older than me. |
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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I remember taking my Dad back home to Portsmouth in January 1980. I had a Mk 1 Golf S, 1500cc and rubber mats, and stayed with friends on Portsdown hill that night. In the morning the car was like a block of ice and it took 30 mins to even open the door, then another 30 to de-ice the car enough to drive. I drove very cautiously, and knew we were in for it when the gritter lorry came up the hill in reverse at Sutton Scotney. It was now snowing heavily, so south of Newbury I pulled into a pub (30 miles in two hours by now) to have a coffee or tea. It was impossible to leave, the snow being over the hub caps by now, and more and more people arrived and we all had to spend the night as best we could, on chairs benches and whatever. I had taken one of the only rooms, but when a couple, the wife 8 months pregnant, arrived I relinquished it and slept on the floor in front of the fire. It took two days to get home to Leicester, but I'll always remember the wonderful full english breakfast the landlady cooked up the next morning. The pub is no more sadly, but I often called in if down that way.
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Norseman
Joined: 09 Jan 2019 Posts: 78 Location: Essex UK
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2019 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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lowdrag wrote: | I had taken one of the only rooms, but when a couple, the wife 8 months pregnant, arrived I relinquished it and slept on the floor in front of the fire. It took two days to get home to Leicester. |
You are a gentleman sir _________________ 1987 classic Range Rover Vouge
1998 E39 523i SE sedan
A great many models have served me well since the 'sixties, all of them old & some even older than me. |
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MikeEdwards
Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2472 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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I must admit that last years long hot spell over summer did put me off using my older cars as much as I should have done. I had a number of events planned for my recent restoration, but as it's running a little warmer than I'd like, I didn't want to tempt fate.
I have done quite a number of shows in wet weather. It's disappointing for everyone, especially if there's an autojumble and everything has to be covered up, but there's nothing to be done. Strange that I wouldn't usually let rain put me off, whereas I did let hot dry sunny weather put me off last year.
I do recall when my Firenza was a daily driver, on more than one occasion I had to set it running to warm up while I brushed several inches of snow off the car. |
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