Bad weather Roadster ride :: Post yours!!

Best handwear in a cold roadster?......try Neopreme fishin gloves!!

 

"Gramma" is a lot heartier than my wife !!!! I have to put the side curtains in if the weather dips below 60 degrees in order for her to ride with me.

I don't have any bad weather pix from my roadster,I'm usually too busy trying to stay on the road to take them.

 

Haven't driven in snow- don't know if I'm that ********.
I've driven when it's raining buckets, when it was well below freezing & across the desert in 117 degree heat. The worst rain was when I was driving to my brothers. Left the top at home. The skys opened up & the freeway was like a lake. Then I got trapped between two 18 wheelers (on each side of me) & it was like a firehose aimed right inside my car- from both sides!

The extremes are tough. 117 in a roadster feels like you stuck your head in a hot oven. The cold? That's the one that is tough for me. Once you start that shivering deep to your bones- it's hard to enjoy the ride.

I've had to resort to driving w/ WileyX goggles the last few years (w/ perscription lenses). My eyes dry out & burn if it gets too hot out.

 

I have yet to have a completely bad ride in a roadster. From 100+ degree heat, pounding rain all the way from Des Moines to Minneapolis, to my drive to work this morning at 40 degrees, I've enjoyed most of them. Only exceptions being when the thermostat was stuck and I had to stop on the side of the road 8 times to fill the radiator with water to get home. 95+ degrees, getting sprayed with hot water/coolant each time it boiled over and working over a hot engine wasn't fun, but I did meet a few cool people along the way that day and at least had the wind in my hair and the sun on my face going down the road. The other exception being when the motor let go 3+ hours from home. 90+ degrees, on the side of the road with our teardrop trailer in-tow waiting for a tow truck for a long tow home wasn't the most fun, but at least the wife and I managed to laugh about it and it made the cold beer taste that much better when we finally did get home.

You just can't get this in a closed car. Until I owned a roadster I just didn't understand . . .

 

never owned a roadster, but I have owned a few motorcycles over the years. never thought of getting stuck in the rain or being chilled to the bone added to the adventure. I just thought it ****ed. I'm sure it would **** just as bad in a roadster.

 

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never owned a roadster, but I have owned a few motorcycles over the years. never thought of getting stuck in the rain or being chilled to the bone added to the adventure. I just thought it ****ed. I'm sure it would **** just as bad in a roadster.
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From my own personal experience... "Murder sickles" are far worse... they tend to tip over...!

 

1967...(43 years ago? How'd that happen?!)...L.A. to St. Louis....rained all through Texas...







then 110 degrees in Arizona

 

Ask a biker what the best stuff to wear in cold wet weather is.

 

Hell 110 in arizona thats every day!!

 

no pics but on my way home from back to the 50s in 2006 in my t bucket it rained bad the whole way from st paul to milwaukee, the top ripped somewhere around madison. at one point i had to laugh cuz the water was coming in between windshield and body, blowing bubbles and popping in my face. It took a week for the car to dry out, there was standing water on the floors when i got home.... besides the top ripping it was a fun ride home all 300 some miles of it

 

Okay, so there are a couple of ways for me to play this one... Damn near every summer I head out to LARS across the desert in a roadster of some sort, and damn near every year it's more than 110 degrees. Almost doable if your bopping around the valley, damn tough when your at the begining of a 5 hour ride.
Then there is the time that Elpolacko and I decided that my avatar should be a convertable, and in a drunken stupor, cut the top off. For about two years I drove it rain, shine, snow, hail, heat, what have you. Sitting in Las Cruces New Mexico one night watching a time and temp sign blink as I waited for a stop light, 33 degrees, 33 degrees, 32 degrees - snow!!! Different trip, a little later in the year, walking out of a bar in Mesilla, New Mexico talking to the guy who had a real pretty panhead parked next to my car on the town square. Snowing pretty good as we walk out laughing who is the dumbest for driving or riding what we were. I motioned to look at the plates on my car which boldly state Arizona - It was agreed, I won hands down!

 

this was my first year with a roadster and i already had 3 bad storms to deal with...pissed when i was drivin', but lovin' it and smilin' when i got home. just part of it... glad to have had those experiences, but now that i have had them, i don't want anymore!

 

Been in the rain too many times!! LOL, Drove 'er to work one very nice morning, about a 10% chance of rain later in the day...about 3:30 (going home time!), it decided to sprinkle, I thought, not to bad, headed on the highway, ran into a downpour for 7 miles!!! A co-worker headin' the same way on a motorcycle stopped under a bridge, I just honked as I went by... he was laughing as p***ed by!!

 

When driving to Mokan I could handle the rain but I was drowning in Semi Truck splash...!

Coming back from the "S**** Pile" is where I had to seek shelter for a couple of hours under a canopy of a gas station... we got 4" of rain per hour for a couple hours straight with Lightning and high winds.

The roads were washed out and when I finally made it back to the city the streets turned to rivers and my car sounded like a "Chris Craft" wood boat as the exhaust was exiting through the foot high waters!

Got close to the shop and noticed a lot of cars with water up to the door handles and the neighbors watching everything floating down the street warning me to stay off the street but allowing me to drive on their front lawns which were only 5"-8" deep in water...

My shop looked like an Island and shortly after I parked the Roadster a couple of kids decided to fjord the water with their 4X4 they created such a huge wave that blasted the vinyl siding off my garage!

I'll never forget that ride for as long as I live!

 

How about getting caught in a "micro burst" ( Phoenix for tornado that doesn't touch down) in my a fore mentioned ******* avatar. Sitting at a stoplight about 1/2 mile from Len1/2ast's house, when everything went quiet. A sound like a low flying jet went over head, and looking up I saw someones shed screaming at speed across the sky at about 200 feet! Then... All Hell broke loose! rain going sideways, down, and after hitting the floor, up! One slow half mile later I pulled into Len's driveway and ran for the house. Opening my car door drained about 2" of water out of the floor... Good times!

 

That was fun. Then we realized we had lost the rest of the group.

The worst for me was driving back from autorama in 2008. It was about 33 degrees and raining the whole 60 miles back from detroit at about 11 at night. Got the flu and was out of work for a few days.

 

With over 50K on the old blue roadster, we've seen our share of rain, wind, thunderstorms, tornado warnings, sleet, hail and snow in the mountains of Montana and Colorado. That's one thing I like about driving a roadster cross country, you'll never fall asleep at the wheel from boredom...........

Here's some in the Black Hills of South Dakota during our Lake Area Roadsters Reliability Run to the Black Hills in May of 2002! That's Tom Huber's A and Randy Pardee's '32 in the pics with my old Deuce.

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And one from the Rocky Mountains in Colorado......
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And one from old Route 66 near Oatman, Arizona in 115 degree heat..........
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I like the Deuce in the Snow...

I found that if you dress appropriately many trips are enjoyable as well as Bearable!!!

 

Getting caught in the rain (snow, sleet, 100 degree heat, gale force winds, etc) is all part of the joys of owning a top less car!

I think the worst weather I've ever been caught in was with Hotrodladycrusr, OldBobsign, and ScottK in the mountains of Colorado back in '07. It was dark, torrential downpours, random wildlife, and flash flooding. Oh and I didn't have a top on the roadster!

Read about it here:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=201969&showall=1

 

The wife freezing her back-side off and it was about to DUMP rain......this is a "pre-iPhone/cool internet phones" shot. I was watching the weather channel at home to see which way the rain was going and kept' saying "Oh don't worry about it".....Haha.....and then we drove in a downpour for over an hour and when we arrived in Dewey, Oklahoma for the Stray Kat 500.......I told her lets go to the motel and dry off.......Her reply "Heck with that, lets go register and have a good time"........You gotta' love a HOTROD wife.


Chris

Oh yea, the second pix if from a couple of years ago for the KCSP and it was not the warmest day out........and the other "gals" in cars were commenting "No freaking way would I ride in a roadster in this weather". By the way the photo is from one of Ryan's blogs.

 

This was taken a couple winters ago, Record snowfall in a 24 hour period.
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You are my kind of "drivers" (They won't melt!)-----Don

 

We lost our old cruise buddy BECAUSE he never could go anywhere with us unless the weather was perfect , His wife would'nt let him open the windows, IT WOULD MESS UP HER PLASTIC HAIR!! Man you should have seen the poor ******* when it was 80+ and he could'nt open the windows on his coupe. WINDOWS AND WIPERS? ......we don't need no stinkin windows and wipers!!!!

 

I'm bringing this up again for a Lurker friend who's building his first Hot Rod Roadster... no fenders, hood, or top! It'll be a bit different from an aircondioned 1954 Chevy Truck!

Right on Danno!

 

A buddy and i took our cars to a show today...........he had to stop and clear the outside of his screen and i had to wipe the water from inside of mine...................







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Re: Bad weather Roadster ride :: Post yours!! Tis the season!!

 

Not my car. My friend, Bill stopped by on a very rainy day a year ago to dry out a little and get a cup of coffee!!






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