Put my car away

[Young Ed]

Spot is now safely stashed for winter slumber. Took this little street shot on our last outing just before getting to the cabin to put her away.

Edited October 27, 2011 by Young Ed

[Joe Flanagan]

That could almost pass for an authentic scene from the 40s. Very nice.

[Young Ed]

That could almost pass for an authentic scene from the 40s. Very nice.

I imagine the buildings are old enough you'd just have to catch the street without any modern cars. The bar/restaurant we eat at regularly called the Longbranch (not sure if its bar, saloon etc) is a quite old building. Still has the stamped steel ceiling tiles and they come down about 1/3 of walls.

[dezeldoc]

What is this "Put my car away for winter" you speak of? around here we drive our cars all year!

[Plymouthy Adams]

stamped steel ceiling tiles are making a comeback..I am not that hot on them especially for the home..maybe in a high ceiling older establishment yeah..but hey..that's just me

[Vintage Metal]

What is this "Put my car away for winter" you speak of? around here we drive our cars all year!

Yep

Get one of those heater plug in things to keep it warm! Drive it during the winter!

[Young Ed]

Yep

Get one of those heater plug in things to keep it warm! Drive it during the winter!

Oh I have no doubt that it would run and drive all winter. I also have no doubt that the salt would rust it away to nothing quickly.

[captden29]

the salt was always my concern when i lived in NY. the car did not come back out until all road salting was over and we had a couple of good rains to wash it all off the road. i live i NC now and i drive my 54 chrysler all year, but less in the winter. i still need to use antifreeze as it can get cold and even snow occasionally. i think they may even salt some of the interstates. capt den

[greg g]

Roads are heavily salted with every sneeze of snow around here. I wouldn't mind driving in cold weather or even in fresh snow, but they don't allow it to land before they start turning it into Sodium Cloride slush. Kinda like driving on the salt flats but you can;t get it off for 4 months.

[1940plymouth]

Yes, once the snow starts here, both the town and state are out. The main roads are white with salt, an I do mean white, as the state uses a pure salt solution, but the town still uses sand and salt mixture

[Captain Neon]

I can attest to the salt in Minneapolis. I thought rural Minnesota used a lot of salt. I had a car with a few small rust spots after 15 years in rural Minnesota go to full blown rust bucket in just one winter in Minneapolis. Salt is a nasty beast.

Does any one want to learn about HEET for the gas?

[DLK]

It doesn't help if you buy a California car (no heater) and live in Minnesota like me. One more reason it went into storage in Goodhue, MN last weekend until April 2012. Besides I need the garage for my 2008 Dodge in the winter.

[Don Coatney]

I recently spent a week in Northern, Indiana. While there I observed many furd pickups much newer than my truck (97) that were full of rust holes due to road salt use. My truck has no rust anywhere as very little salt is used in my area of Tennessee.

[Dan Hiebert]

I have a 2001 Dodge Ram that I bought new (in 2000) in New Mexico. The heat down there must have "case hardened" everything, because I've had it in these northern road-salt winters beginning in 2003, and it doesn't have a lick of rust on it. People around here are amazed at its condition, although one fellow actually said..."nice old Dodge". Didn't know whether to be complimented or offended, never thought I'd see the day when something I bought new is considered old.....

[Captain Neon]

I have a 2001 Dodge Ram that I bought new (in 2000) in New Mexico. The heat down there must have "case hardened" everything, because I've had it in these northern road-salt winters beginning in 2003, and it doesn't have a lick of rust on it. People around here are amazed at its condition, although one fellow actually said..."nice old Dodge". Didn't know whether to be complimented or offended, never thought I'd see the day when something I bought new is considered old.....

My wife and I stopped at a rest stop in my '97 Neon a few years ago. While waiting for my wife, a man says to his toddler son, "Let's go look at the old car."

I looked around for a cool old car to scope out for my self. I realised that he was referring my Neon when I saw that his car and mine were the only cars in the parking lot. Until I traded in the wife's '92 Acclaim on an '09 PT Cruiser last fall, it was the newest car we owned.

[Plymouthy Adams]

I miss my Acclaim...220,000 miles later I gave it to the daughter..she drove it about 2 more years..never had the head off, still had original axle boots...I was always towing cars with that puppy...2.5 automatic...very comfortable car to drive also..

[greg g]

So we did not get any snow last night, but we got the first frost of ay signifigance.

About 10, I made a trip to the hardware store, and the roads had salt residue on them.

So now they are salting on the weatherman's threat of snow.

We had an Acclaim also, had 130K on it when it got whacked. We had the Mitsu 3.0 V6

Quiet comfortable good mileage good road car. Still see a couple around from time to time they still look pretty good rust wise.

[Niel Hoback]

We had a 92 Spirit that was an alright car At 143k the trans quit shifting and I dumped it for $400. It didn't have a speck of rust onit anywhere. It was as clean as new.

[JohnS48plm]

I just put patches on the front doors of my brothers 94 Acclaim last week. The bottom of the passengers door was mostly gone. The car only has 64,000 miles on it. The salt here in western Michigan gets put down heavy in January and February. JohnS

[Captain Neon]

We liked the '92 Acclaim just fine, but for the last couple of years we had been throwing good money after bad. After replacing the rack & pinion, it never was the same. It seemed like a semi truck had a tighter turning radius. Too many more things needed fixing, and who knows what lurking under the surface. It was sad to see her go. It had been my mother-in-law's car for a long time, my sister-in-law drove it for a couple of years, and then my wife drove it for an other 6 years. I asked all of my wife's family if they were OK with the car getting traded in before we finally traded for the PT Cruiser. Brother-in-law is a professional mechanic at a body shop. He could have fixed what was wrong much better and cheaper than I could. The thought process was to fix up and give to my niece when she turns 16. That is still 5 years away, and no one could see storing the car some where for 6 years. We got the car when she was 4, and she was angry that we were taking HER car away. I thought I would miss that car, but the PT Cruiser is working out just fine. They should have made that car available with the 2.7L V6 in my opinion. The 2.4L I4 is a bit sluggish in this car.

[pflaming]

We lived in Omaha in the late '70's. Afternoon, in the winter, on the major streets they would feather out the accomulated snow at the road's edge onto the street where it was salt slush about 6" thick. We drove in that all winter!!!! Omaha is a great city but I would not move back. Takes someone strong like Frankie to live there!!!!