...don't quit drivin em if the roads are dry,...but mine don't look like yours... been drivin em every chance I get lately...I love the Fall weather.
The beauty of living in the South, we can drive our cars all year long, yeah,there is that occasional snow & ice but if the roads are clear all we have to deal with is the cold weather. HRP
Lou, with the thread ***le I first though you had sold your coupe. "The final drive for the year" would have been less of a shock. HRP
No final drive here, my pickup is a daily driver and sits outside. Picture was taken while sledding with the grandkids. Gets a lot of use and abuse but think it's time to retire it and redo it again, been driving it for 18 years.
Sorry, it's going to be 90 degrees this weekend. About the only time I don't drive Rusty is when it's raining.
In this part of the South even in the dead of winter there will be some days good for getting the car out. Might be 65 degrees with rain on Monday and 25 degrees with snow on Thursday, but there will be some 60 degree with the sun shining in there somewhere. I don't have a heater so I'm a little pickey about when I get the coupe out.
From the ***le I thought it was... you know... a really really "final drive." I read somewhere Henry was driven to his final resting place in a Packard. Here's a Cadillac:
I've been known to throw some snow-donuts with my old cars. If it's not too sloppy out I'll get 'em out.
Funny thing me and the better half got out last weekend for the "final" drive of the year. Beauty day and had a great time. Put the car in the back garage but can't bring myself to winterized her and put up on block. Might just be able to sneak another drive in. Sent from my iPad using H.A.M.B.
The final drive of the season will be the day before they predict the big snow storm. When the salt comes out, the coupe gets parked for the winter. Gene
...This was the other evening in Perth, Ontario, Canada. It's dark around 6pm...and it was about 38F...but it was fun and perhaps my last ride this year as there's white stuff in the forecast for this weekend......and if the salt and brine is spread no more... @LOU WELLS, I'm glad you were talking driving and not calling it quits as I too thought that when I read the ***le...
Being a Wisconsin resident I always have enjoyed the Fall season for the pure beauty, crispy morning temps and always have cruised my stuff much in fall, knowing that type of fun takes a vacation for 4/5 months. Your thread tile made me think the worst, happy to read just about a cruise, not the "Final" ride.
I will not park mine due to winter. At my age, I see no good reason to try to keep it in show condition by only taking it out in perfect conditions. I just need to/have to/want to/ "drive the wheels off of it", because I've been into old style rods since I was a kid building AMT 3-in-1 model cars. The more I drove it, the more I finally realized that this is what I always wanted to drive. At least I followed my hidden? dream, before it was "too late". I see no point in buying a winter car, I can use that money for fun stuff...like gas for the hotrod. .
I moved from NW Montana to Kingman,az. I was communicating with one of my car buddy's telling him I could drive my roadster 360 here and he should look at this area to retire. He ask about the other 5 days. My comment was "I usually out of town"
I agree hole heartedly Not sure for exactly for the same reasons but for sure I agree When growing up I would see 40s / 50s / 60s hot rods used as daily drivers , cruising by in the winter. Sometimes we would get a light snow fall and the sun would come out , they would be all wet so the cragars glisten as they went rumbling by.. This brings me to thinking about Christmas! And my endless wishlist that came out of the Sears catalog ( remember the huge automotive section?) or the JC Whitney , my first set of stamped steel chrome valve covers ! Chrome reverse , Gl*** packs Headers under the tree! So yah , I could go on but think you get the point Understand why people don’t but glad some do for there own reasons Happy Motoring [emoji106] Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
When I saw the ***le I thought it was going to be another Hot Rodder going to their final resting place. Glad I was wrong. If I had a car as nice as Lou's I would park it for the winter also.
I drive mine in the winter except when brine is on the road and wait for a good rain to wash off the roads before driving again...……..
I'm holding out hope for another cruise or two before it snows. It won't be this weekend though, it's supposed to rain for the next few days...
I never do enough winter prepartions that will prevent me from driving my cars on nice days. Never have put anything to prevent rodent infestation in the cars themselves and have never had a problem. I use old fashioned spring traps baited with peanut ****er around the shop perimiter along with DeCon edible baits. Gary
I drive my roadster year round whether or not it makes sense. Some times I look like an Eskimo as I drive it, mostly in the winter mornings, and by afternoon my floor boards look like a laundry shoot as I "delayer" when the temperature rises. The ONLY exception to that is the Grand National Roadster Show. We have been going every year since they started the drive in show on Saturday and Sunday. My son and I would drive down the mountains to the flat lands in Pomona. Coming home at night after the show in late January could get real cold and miserable. About 4 years ago the wind was whipping through Cajon p*** so strong, it would slam the roadster and toss it into the next lane. As we climbed into the mountains it only got worse. I had my parka on and a thermal sweatshirt under it. We drove over 2 hours like that and as I pulled off the freeway at our mountain exit, I looked at my 26 year old son, and he looked back at me and said "I'm miserable!". He never complaints about anything. If he said he was miserable, I knew it was bad. So, the last 4 years I have loaded it on a stretcher for the trip. I now sit in my warm truck all the way down and back. I still drive it everywhere I want, but the one and only concession to cold I make sure has helped these old bones. Being one, I feel that roadster owners are a different breed of cat to get the most fun out of our cars year round. So if you drive through the mountains in central Ca. on hwy 58 in the winter and see a Washington Blue deuce hiboy with a hemi in it and an Eskimo driving, your eyes are not playing tricks on you, it's just me. Wave hello to this roadster guy!
Took 3 of our cars out last weekend , weather was great. The shoebox , the 37 and the 32 3W. What is winterising??? While we can get freezing temps and rain , we do not get snow here in our part of NZ. If its real cold and windy I may not take the highboy out, but if there is a run or event on we still head out right thru winter in a rod with fenders. Though to be honest given a choice if its raining real hard we may stay home. I couldn’t bear the thought of a car on blocks for the whole of winter ,it sounds real boring. You folks who live with snow ice and salt must be suffering withdrawal symptoms by winters end. While down under we are 2 months into spring now and there are rod events every where, it becomes hard to make consumer decisions as to where to go.
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