I spent 7 years in hilly northwest lower Michigan with a rear-wheel, manual transmission, pickup truck. I got rather good with winter driving (I did have snow tires and weighted down the back end). Probably helped I grew up in West Michigan so already had winter driving experience (ice with a huge rear-wheel-drive Chevy Impala stations wagon, however, is no good). When then acceleration got worse and choppy on the old thing, it was time to replace it, with a four-wheel-drive off-road package pickup. It was nice not having to go on side routes around the really big hill or get annoyed with people who slowed down before going up a hill.MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 11:46 amMy husband was the best winter driver. He had a smart driver's ed instructor in high school. The instructor had the students practice winter driving and stopping in an empty snow covered parking lot - easy to find in northern Iowa in the wintertime. My husband loved using the hand brake in his '56 Chevy pickup on the freshly snow covered street as he neared the driveway. He would get the skid and steering wheel turn just perfect to align the pickup to then drive straight into the driveway. Of course, the newer front-drive cars with great snow tires weren't nearly as fun. A lot safer, but not as fun.
People in the Chicago area suck at winter driving. It is a simple rule. Don't do anything sudden. This, of course, is anathema to Chicago drivers. For them, a large monster SUV has all these safety things so it must be safe to gun it and slam the breaks or fly around the corner. They don't recognize a little thing called Newton's First Law. Always seems like it is the monster mobiles stuck in the ditch.
And speaking of snow in the Weather thread.. guess what is forecasted for this weekend? Yeehaw.