Post your winter beater!

clutchsmoke wrote:

oldeskewltoy wrote: Grunt my All-trac Corolla... around for another season

God damn do I hate you!!

My neighbor has a meticulously restored 2WD sedan that has never seen salt and it looks only slightly better than this.

In fact I'm pretty sure my coupe has more rust.

Oh and my winter beater? Look in my garage, pick a car that runs

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

Do you sit on it, til it falls asleep, so it feels like someone else is doing it?

I dont' have a winter beater anymore. but of all the winter beaters i've had, this was my favorite. arctic alpins in 195/65-15 kicked ass. jan 2007, brimley MI.

Pick one

belteshazzar wrote:

Burrito Enthusiast wrote: Trugg.

One fuel tank? Can't remember seeing that in the wild. How big is it?

I don't think I've ever been able to cram more than 14 gallons in it, and I'm generally pretty ballsy/lazy when it comes to getting fuel. It's definitely a fleet built truck.

Hakkapaletta-shod dominance. This might be its last winter, though. The time for a new DD is around the corner.

Bald tires...

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And my year round roller

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A beater for all seasons. The Wife had it for the first 370k, then in October I inherited it. It has some cheap snows on it now and takes me 160 miles a day to and from Manhattan. They have done a terrible job plowing this winter but she has just slogs on through. It has a lot of rattles and rust I will have to address in the spring but it starts every morning so who am I to complain.

pilotbraden wrote: General Altimax Arctics make it a great winter car

Yes, the contact patch your ride has with the ground looks like it will work great in bad weather.

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In reply to volvoclearinghouse:

What's that blue stuff on your grill?

321,000 hard miles.

Either this:

Or this, depending on the level of snowfall:

Or, if it's particularly terrible and the wife needs to go somewhere that day I'll take the Burban (better than the Stincoln on the slick stuff) and leave her the Scoob.

Art is the only car that is 100% safe from encountering the corrosive E36 M3 they spread on the snow and ice around here.

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The chains make it look menacing! I like it.

Oh, and my winter beater has been:

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

Be sure to switch sides once in a while, you don't want to end up like this poor bastard.

You have really thin fingers, btw...

In reply to JohnInKansas:

Definitely at least as awesome as my Volvo snowplow... ;-)

Sine_Qua_Non wrote: In reply to volvoclearinghouse: What's that blue stuff on your grill?

Grille blank-offs. Helps the car heat up faster. I removed the grille halves and traced them onto a pair of old Rubbermaid lids whose containers had ceased to exist. Then drilled holes and cable tied them to the grilles (after reinstalling them). I cut one in half to allow a little air though, although honestly I've driven the car in 70 degree weather with the block-offs like that and it doesn't overheat.

I removed the mechanical fan as well, and installed a dash-switch-actuated electric job I grabbed from the junkyard. Almost never turn it on. Iron block/ iron head engines with low specific power output are tough to overheat. The damn thing would probably run without coolant.

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