How Many Drive Their Old Mopars In Rain

[55 Fargo]

Hey so here is the ?

How many of you Guys drive your Old Mopars in the rain. My area seems to be soggy this year, and if the weather forecast includes a lot of rain, I might start driving on rainy days, up to this point have not driven in rainy weather if possible.

So this is todays not overy useful question/discussion. I have been grounded by both winter, rainy weather, and of course dirty dusty gravel road, that I live on, which is alomost 3 miles from pavement.....

[Plymouthy Adams]

hasn't raind in two months..you send me rain, I'll take the car out..BUT to be sure this is legit from you..you must tell me exact date and hour of rain 3 days in advance...an be greater than 2 inches of rainfall..will take the car out after a known two inches has fallen..

[BobT-47P15]

I don't drive the convert in the rain, if I can avoid it.

Have gotten caught out when rain began......well, so be it.....it got wet.

My windshield leaks at the outer, lower corners.....water runs down the

dash and onto your foot. Also gets onto the motor thru the grille and

the openings in the hood where center trim attaches.

I don't ever wash the car either.......just wipe off any dust, then

wax. Been doing that ever since the new paint job several years

ago.

And, don't forget the Rain-X.

[Adam H P15 D30]

As long as it isn't 90+ degrees out and I want to drive the Dodge, I drive it. Hell, it has wipers except when accelerating IT'S JUST A CAR......

[P-12 Tommy]

I've been caught twice in a downpour. When it's 90 plus degrees and you roll the windows up.....not fun. If it had air I wouldn't mind. It won't melt.

Tom

[Don Coatney]

If you drive more than 500 miles from home and it starts raining what do you do? Turn around and head home?

[Plymouthy Adams]

rainstorms are a neat way to meet people...while cruising in WV in the Porsche..top down it started to rain, off the road and against the hill..a barn with open doors..so I park the car and meet the owner...faster than trying to get the top in place.

[Mark D]

This past weekend, I drove the car in the rain for the first time, and the sun had set to boot. Thankfully I did replace the old wipers that were on the car when I bought it. As to performance; the wipers worked as long as I was traveling on flat ground, any up hill grade and they where a total failure (wouldn't change that at all). Add headlights from oncoming cars and seeing through that 63 year old glass was horrible. I suppose I could replace that glass if there wheren't some sweet old inspection and car club sitckers attached to it. For the time being I am happy with what I got and will just plan my travels a little better. And there's a bottle of Rain-x in my future as well.

[TodFitch]

Rain-x is marvelous stuff. Makes seeing out of the passenger side of my car possible during a rain storm (only a driver side wiper on the '33).

With respect to intentionally driving in the rain, I don't do it often. Mostly because I really have to clean the car afterward and I'm lazy.

And of course there is the issue of (lack of) turn signals. On nice days I just have the driver side window down and can signal at will. On rainy days I'm likely to have the window up, so signaling becomes a bit more involved and there will be some water getting into the car.

[Don Coatney]

rainstorms are a neat way to meet people...while cruising in WV in the Porsche..top down it started to rain, off the road and against the hill..a barn with open doors..so I park the car and meet the owner...faster than trying to get the top in place.

Yea sure. Here is my version and I am sticking to it.

while cruising in WV in the P-15..it started to rain, off the road and against the hill..a barn with open doors..so I park the car and meet the owner... She had her top down:cool:

[thrashingcows]

I have absolutely no problem driving my cars in the rain. The only time I won't is in the early spring when there is still salt and chemicals on the road. I figure the car isn't getting much wetter then when you wash it in the driveway....just a little dirtier. When I get home I will use the hose to wash off the wheels and wheel wells....and some of the lower parts on the car....then into the garage.

[Plymouthy Adams]

Well played Don Coatney...!!!!!!!

[Plymouthy Adams]

tell you one more, on my return trip to the south I was on the country road that leads to the major highway, passed by a house and through the screen door saw flames just a flaring..stopped the car, yelled at the door, no answer, ran in..found a grease fire on the stove..grabbed a lid and smothered the flames..went out the back door and startled some poor lady, let her know what I was doing in her home..she was most grateful and said it slipped her mind she had the stove on while she went to the garden..

[greg g]

Rain Happens. While I usually do not deliberatly travel in the Plymouth in the rain, If it rains so be it. We came home from a carshow in a veritable deluge a year or so ago.

trudged through water up to the hubcaps in a couple places. My defroster works about like Don's does, but you keep plugging along.

[1940plymouth]

Rain Happens. While I usually do not deliberatly travel in the Plymouth in the rain, If it rains so be it. We came home from a carshow in a veritable deluge a year or so ago.

trudged through water up to the hubcaps in a couple places. My defroster works about like Don's does, but you keep plugging along.

Greg,

When you down here last August, you had to drive back to the Syracuse area in rain. The rain had held off most of that day until just after you and I got to the fairgrounds

Edited May 9, 2011 by '40Plymouth

[greg g]

yep that was a wet 3.5 hours....

[woodie49]

I have driven in the rain, but only when I got unintentionally caught in it. Rain and wood really don't mix well, even with the wood decently sealed, so i avoid it. Fortunately, rain in my neck of the woods is not a real problem.

[1941Rick]

Been caught in the rain a few times last year.....won't go out if it is raining....vacumn wipers do not work that well....so now have electric.....let it rain!!!!

[JBNeal]

within a year of getting the '48 pickup on the road (legally), I got caught in a pop-up spring shower. The rain was brief and without incident, but the problem I had was braking once the rain stopped and folks drove like they hadn't driven on wet roads before. Some heifer pulled her Datsun out in front of me and I purt'near plowed right into her blu-smokin' clunker as my bias plies briefly slid on the not-so-dry pavement. A few miles later, at a stop light, some guy in a beat-up Chevy C-10 locked it up and started sliding sideways right towards my rear bumper. Dunno how he got it stopped in time, but I was bracing for impact as I was blocked in by cars in front of me & to the right, with a jersey barrier on the left.

From that day forward, I've never taken a drive in the classics if the roads are gonna be slick...too durn risky to get caught up in an incident with some moron un-insured motorist.

[Young Ed]

Yea sure. Here is my version and I am sticking to it.

while cruising in WV in the P-15..it started to rain, off the road and against the hill..a barn with open doors..so I park the car and meet the owner... She had her top down:cool:

That explains one of the extra wives.

[P-12 Tommy]

If you drive more than 500 miles from home and it starts raining what do you do? Turn around and head home?

Well, that's kind of a no brainer.

Tom

[Charlie Olson]

December 2009, Rawhide Western Town/Wild Horse Pass Casino Car Show and Oldies Dance: When I left home, driving PLYWOOD, it was windy, cool and dark cloudy; arrived 20 miles and 35 minutes later. All the vehicles were parked in grass, big barbecue was smoking away, the band was playing inside a large metal roof/sides building with about 20 car related vendors in place. Two hours into the activities, the Heavens opened up and it started pouring good clean, sweet smelling, cool clear water. I was expecting people to pack up and leave, but no, everybody just moved their chairs, etc. inside the huge metal building; listening to the pellets of rain pinging away on the metal roof. I grabbed a cold beer and went to sit in PLYWOOD's back seat, to enjoy watching the rain through 63 year old windows and being right satisfied that PLYWOOD has no headliner or roof insulation. Next time it rains here in AZ and I happen to have PLYWOOD out of the storage barn, I'll definitely make sure I am out somewhere beautiful, sitting in the back seat, watching and hearing the blessed rain.

PS: Some gentleman had come over to talk to me and take a picture of PLYWOOD. A few months later, that picture was placed in the Woodie Times letters section. The gentleman wrote he didn't know my name, but wanted to share the photo of an unusual Woodie. The editor, John Lee, answered that the car was PLYWOOD belonging to me and had been the subject of many photos sent to him, asking about the car. Made for a nice memory of my day in the rain; PLYWOOD style.

[p15-1948]

I don't shy away from cloudy days, but man I need to figure out electric wipers for the P15.

[martybose]

I don't shy away from cloudy days, but man I need to figure out electric wipers for the P15.

Not really, a good set of vacuum wipers will work really well when you add a vacuum storage canister! Mine is hidden behind a body brace at the bottom of the firewall on the passenger side, and works great!

Marty

[BeBop138]

I don`t go out when it rains----If it rains at a show so be it. When we do a show out of town or long visits with friends----rain or shine............Lee