Leaderboard

Our local library in 1930 Modern times..

Detroit-Electric, Washington State, 1919 :

Vintage Seattle Winter 1916

^ Of course; driver skill is #1. ?

The Buick probably didn't have snow tires..at first I thought the car on the far left was an Eldorado, but I think it's a '73 Grand Prix--can see the taillights under the snow. The car in front of it in the center of the pic looks like a '73 LeMans ..might be a '64-65 Cutlass 2dr in front of it (dark car)...then a Beetle further to the right, This looks like I-90/2 heading downtown from the east, along by the lakefront airport.. My Dad got through E. Ohio/Pittsburgh winters in the 70s in big Mercurys and Lincolns by putting snow tires on all 4 wheels and weighing down the trunk w/ a couple bags of Quickcrete mix.

Haha. That is old school Montreal. If you go more than 3 or 4 miles in any direction from Centre-Ville, those houses with the tight, curved staircases up to the porch disappear. I know you know that (I'm preaching to the choir ... sorry). I've never been to your city when it has been snowing. Every time I see those staircases, I wonder how many poor immigrants from warmer places slid on their behinds down those absurd staircases, got banged up something awful, and cursed that they ever came over to "la Nouvelle France."

There's a lot of factors involved, wheelbase being just one. Longer vehicles have more leverage to slide. Period RWD cars often had much wider tires than subsequent FWD cars- wider tires = shoeshoe. It's largely an invalid comparison between 2 very different vehicles that started the narrative. What would be illustrative is comparing a -say- early 70s fulls-size RWD car vs. a period Toronado / Eldorado; similar weights, power, lengths & tire size. Only issue I ever had winter snow driving was a regular cab / long bed RWD pick-up, which must be like 80/20 weight distribution. Everything else I had: Bonneville, Catalina, Safari, etc, etc all did fine in the snow.

With 30 million unemployed, the worst since the Great Recession of the 1930's, I think we are far from over. Things are going to get worse before they get better sadly. I actually think we could see about 35 million unemployed. Interesting is that in states that are opening up, the up tick in infections is also going up again. Reports from various Virus Medical professionals are saying expect 2 more years of Coronavirus problems. This is due to the fact that even if they find a cure in the next month or so, it will take 30 to 90 days to test on animals, then human trials. Once approved, they then have to ramp up production and then get the shots across the glob to inoculate people. So 24 months is totally understandable.

Nice photos. That same winter, the snow load was too much for the cathedral on First Hill to take and the dome's roof gave out. It is weird that, for being near the 47th parallel, like Montreal, more or less, Seattle can get through some winters without any white stuff. I once went into a movie theater at Northgate Mall to see "Godfather 3" with a friend, we left, and it had snowed so much that it was almost impossible to drive my dad's RWD Buick sedan back to his house. Brings back memories of the ad slogan, "Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick?" Ouch. How does that even happen if a person is going slow enough? Blame it on the RWD. Which interstate is that in the bottom photo? The car at the very left looks like an Eldorado. Which one is the LeMans?

I went looking for vintage Ohio winter pics, found these, some GMs incl. a big Buick in there..the 1950 pic has a Hudson. Looks like a mid 70s Grand Prix and a '73-ish LeMans in the bottom pic (Blizzard of 78 in Cleveland).

snow and road salt and old Chevy got my attention. Then I read...Texas. I got jealous. I wanted to share a Montreal pic with you folk. So I googled vintage Montreal and winter in Montreal and all that... I wanted to somehow match Balthy's pic. This is what I got and Im very happy about it. I got a classic Montreal street, got the snow AND I got not 1 Chevy, but 2 in the pic. Im so proud of myself!!!

@Robert Hall @dfelt You guys have your priorities wrong. That money should go toward cars, not booze

Well, bunch of people were let go in my company today. That's in addition to one week of furlough we are going to take. I am afraid it is just the beginning ...