Is the Frankenheap not a 240D? Where would he get 80Hp? Maybe 40 HP?
Randy
On 24/11/2010 11:57 AM, Rich Thomas wrote:
You should take up story writing, that was a very good story there.
Add a bit more drama (As the fully-loaded log truck came sliding
around the curve, with the trailer trying to overtake the tractor, the
fear in my wife's eyes was absent, as she was texting on her phone and
completely oblivious to the disaster about to envelope us. I gunned
the engine, and all 80HP of the Heap surged to life, and the worn out
snow tires managed to grab just a bit. The car just managed to remove
us from the danger zone as the runaway rig slid past my now screaming
wife, who was announcing "they won, they won!") and you would have
them hooked.
--R
On 11/24/10 2:04 AM, Jim Cathey wrote:
Date night! We had a houseguest, so he stayed home to watch Daniel
while Jill and I went to band practice. The weather was bad, and
predicted to be so, and rehearsal (which was sadly necessary!) was cut
short. We made it almost all the way home, but we ran into blizzard
conditions and drifting on one road I should have been savvy enough to
avoid. (I had gotten stuck there once before and there was a
marginally better alternate route.) We were going OK even though
visibility was terrible, paffing through a few drifts high enough to
wash over the hood like waves, when we ran afoul of cars stalled at a
stop sign at a bit of an uphill at the juncture to our road, and were
forced to ourselves stop...and join the party. The car kept us warm,
and the heater fan was working well on high, but the high snow-filled
winds and low temperatures took their toll in spite of the covered
radiator, and the engine temperature slowly dropped. After an hour
and a half or so, punctuated with other arrivals most of whom could
get away again, the county plow came by and pulled us and the others
out. In the meantime our own road had become impassible, and we were
so cold and disheartened (we'd both gotten out and pushed a lot, both
our own car and others) that we headed the other way, with the wind,
rather than wait to get snowed in again or bashed into, and took refuge
for the night with nearby friends. By then it had gotten so cold and
windy that the windshield was more or less permanently iced up and I
had to drive with my head out the opened door. That added to the fun,
and resulted in a rather snowy interior. And there were still drifts
to deal with that way, too. But we got through and parked out on the
street.
In the morning the interior of the car was frozen solid, and I
couldn't even begin to start it. I had the space heater, though, and
I borrowed a long extension cord and a current bush and let 'er rip
for an hour or so. That got the starter knob unthawed enough to start
the car, whereupon we went home. That trip, in the light and with no
wind, was uneventful. Most of the drifts had by then been plowed back
some.
The car actually acquitted itself pretty well, we were asking a bit
too much from it. The now-ancient Hakkapeliitta 1 snow tires still
worked well. Had I only gone the other way it would merely have been
a bit of a hairy trip. As it was, it was an Event.
-- Jim
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