47-55.1 Winter is coming

[hogfarm]

One more car/truck show at Maryhill on 5 October,then the 54 truck is put in storage till next year.Hope to finish my 58 this winter

[MiraclePieCo]

Gonna take mine for a long drive Thursday, after that the weather will get cold and they'll start salting the roads.

[mr48chev]

Not sure where you are at in Oregon and if it is doable distance wise but the event at Maryhill Museum on the fifth is a great and pretty laid back event for the most part. Plus the wives or significant others like it because they can poke around in the museum for a few hours during the show or just go sit out on a bench and enjoy the scenery.

It's not a "we got to drag in spectators" event so most everyone there are car folks.

This is from two years ago. https://robertdavison.smugmug.com/20...rs-de-Maryhill

[cmayna]

You west coasters make it sound like snow blizzard winter on the west coast? Seriously? I plan to drive mine 2-3 times a week, like I do in the "nice weather".

Unless it is seriously raining hard, we're off and running.

[vintovka]

Gotta get my windshield and back window sealed up before the rains . Both are new and a crap install i paid for. The rear is a slider which i wonder can ever be sealed.

[hogfarm]

Originally Posted by cmayna

You west coasters make it sound like snow blizzard winter on the west coast? Seriously? I plan to drive mine 2-3 times a week, like I do in the "nice weather".

Unless it is seriously raining hard, we're off and running.

Well here it does snow, my house is in the higher elevations,I could get snow as early as mid October. Once it is here it does not leave till spring.After looking at the weather I'm not sure about even making Maryhill.Today I'm going to get the bed for my 58,I will set on the truck then put it in the shop for the winter.I do not have room for 2 trucks,so the 54 goes to my daughters house for the winter

[hogfarm]

I may have waited to long to get my 54 put away for the winter,I store it in my daughters garage.it is snowing this morning,bout the earliest,I've ever seen it snow,on my mountain and I have lived here 25 years

[_Ogre]

really??? wtf??? you had to mention those words
i'll drive truk until the f'ing S trucks come out, then bye bye till spring

[vintovka]

Too late, winter is here with a vengeance. Very heavy rain (currently .75in/hr), lightning an thunder. Huge waves too and low winds so it will be here for awhile. The 54 is garaged at 220' AMSL so we are fine. Hearing it may be a extremely wet year with 50" so far on coast. Will be fixing my Pittman arm in the nice dry garage and the rain in the metal roof will be my background "music"

[cmayna]

For those of you who do live in the mucho rainy or snowy conditions, your trucks say thank you for not driving them during the winter months.

[Gippetto]

I, like Ogre, key on the sanding trucks. Once they come out I go in. In the Spring I dont come out of hibernation untill there has been drenching rain to wash the roads. My truck isn't driveable yet but I have a sbc Model A to get around in when I need a mental health break.

[oldman3]

Don't get a lot of snow here in southern Missouri. So I drive mine at least a couple days a month during winter. Had it out today 90 degress...Jim

[vintovka]

Been driving to beach on sunny days between rain storms. Every trip, long or short, is an ocean cruise that make one savor the vehicle and being alive.

[_Ogre]

Originally Posted by Gippetto

I, like Ogre, key on the sanding trucks.

i wish it was sand trucks... the other S word

[mr48chev]

We were supposed to have our first frost last night. I'm about 70 miles north of Hogfarm if you draw a straight line. 76 or 99 miles by road depending on which road.

The Simcoe mountains between us block some of the weather from me though.

[Gippetto]

Ogre, you got me on that one. Been racking my feeble mind. Sanding trucks with salt, understood, was not what you meant. Other S trucks where your a Motown man must be a Smokey Robertson truck or the Supreme's truck (?) or you still sweat the septic trucks that prowl year round. That's all the s trucks I can think of. Don't tell me it's just a snow truck.
Tell us what gets you in the garage in the Fall.

[my56chevytruck]

Please don't say that S word, to me it means just another 4 letter word.

[_Ogre]

they quit using sand in sand trucks years ago, now it's all the other S word
i wish they'd go back to sand, lot easier on bridges, roads and vehicles
maybe people would slow down a bit on roads in the winter
or at least learn to drive again

[mr48chev]

They use a liquid deicer here in front of the house. They still use sand here too but it quite often has what amounts to small gravel in it.

[hogfarm]

Well sorry to say Winter has me scared.It is getting cold and there is new snow on the mountains.Last year at this time it was chilly but not cold.I was going to go to a car show today at Maryhill,it is my favorite show of the year.Next week I'm having surgery and will be in the hospital overnight,and then will need to rest a few days.So I can't make it to the car show today.Today is the only chance I have to get truck to storage

[mr48chev]

I won't load up that "patina" tailgate that I was going to haul down then. I'm leaving in about ten minutes as soon as I get off here and do the 3 car shuffle.