Cold!!!!!!!!!!

I have just got home from a one hour ride in my
no heat speedster. Had to test the new syncros rings the local
transmission shop installed.
20 degress F or -5 C is the outside temp.
OOOOOCH but still good time.

ggggggary

Yep! All you guys in the Northeast, bundle up!!!!

Your kidding right?
If it was still 20F up here I'd be driving with the top down and wearing a t-shirt!

Pat

We will drop down to 6F tonight.I am not sure if I will drive my speedster to work.Just kidding.

-3F this morning

Don't you just love the open line of the first post on the thread just below this one . . . under the 'reactions" heading>

"This morning was sunny and beautiful so I decided to take my Speedster out to do some of my errands. Put the top down and took off."

35f in San Jose, CA last night. It may sound strange to some, but that is as cold as it gets arouns here. For a local boy, it's cold. Its 52f outside right now and people are walking around with ski jackets on.
-=theron

Hey GGGGary...you did wear your toque no???

Greetings from So.Cal!

Went for a cruise down the coast this past weekend. The temp was 74F with a wind chill factor of 70F. Hope our Speedy colleagues up north are planning to make reservations for the pending 2006 Paso Robles meet and take a break from the winter chill. Looking forward to meeting more SOC members and cruising the back roads of Central Calif coast!

Jim, I was going to post on this thread, but I didn't want any of these ice jockies to move here........

It was 31 F and some fog but I looked out and a foursome just went by on the golf course. You SoCal guys have had it so nice, for so long you don't know real fun is! LOL!

Hey Dan, forgot the toque.....but drove to your place.
guess you were at the rink.
See ya soon bud .... maybe try to set the new cold weather mark
in our speedsters eh.

Cold???? I'm with Pat, 20 degrees is top down weather for me too!!!

Hey, Tony
that picture was taken near Rabbit Creek road in South Anchorage, right? Also obviously taken on the annual summer day. Your car looks sweet, but by rights it should be mostly covered with mud, with chips in the windshield...You're being a good owner.

Scott,
Where are you living now?

Pat

Tony

You got some nice twisty roads to work with,lucky you.Around here is pretty flat.Back home (Greece)is full of those roads.

Last year:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/TeamEvil/1snowypanorama.jpg

And this year's supposed to be worse . . .

A a a r r r g g g h h h ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Ok the stage is set. The new Speedster competition.
COLD ASS RIDE


RULES
1- Drive your car in the cold competition
2- Prove the temperature with www.weathernetwork.com
3- Driver needs to cut the temp from weathernetwork and paste in the speedster owner website.
4- Supply photo and describe the drive with all of its gory details

Well I did drive mine this morning at -4F, and it was COLD. My winter car had the battery go bad so I just took the Porsche.

Although I have hot water heat so it's not really a fair comparison.

Too late on the cut and paste. I had to get to work....sorry

I hear ya Steve! Iowa is getting hit hard by the cold front.....

I'm in Dallas TX right now and I am frankly SHOCKED at how cold it is. My flight out may even be delayed due to the ice.

This is my first time to Texas. I thought it was HOT here! Gotta get back to ORegon where its a little warmer... angela

COLD ASS RIDE compition.... Love it

How about a sponser and or a prize.....??

Yeah Gary...too bad my kid's hockey equipment won't fit in the back of "Della"...I would maybe challenge for the cold weather cup...get it...cup...that's an old hockey term for you guys out of the loop!
Why on earth do I live in Canada!!! I hate the cold!!!
Gary...with any luck I'm going to bring Della over on Boxing Day...for the cup we challenge dat day noh? maybee? Eh?

Its only been minus 20C here so far so I'll have to wait until early spring when its colder. Here's a pic from last March...probably only about minus 20C then though.

Problem here is not the cold then but the streets...they don't remove the snow but just pack it down then spread out gravel on top at intersections and such. Makes for slippery driving and those rear engined cars will just as soon go down the road backwards than frontwards. And the stones do a job on your paint.

Brian

i drove mine up until the week before thanksgiving. packed it away for the year. ; (

In regards to the Texas weather...

Oh yes, It can get cold here. But unlike other areas in the country. We have two seasons. Summer and Winter. Lived in Northern VA for 2 years... damn... now that sh!t hurts it

That's great weather Jamie! Just like natural A/C which is great. I bet you had a great time with that gorgeous blue machine of yours. God I love that color!! I was trying to look it up in the Glasurit website but never saw a color chip to verify it. There was a Speedster Blue color in '54 & '55 but I'm not sure if it's the same as yours. In the Dr. Johnson book on 356's I believe there's one in your color on the cover but even then I think they were few and far between; sort of rare.

Thanks for the complement. It is suppose to be the modeled after this car.

http://www.my356carrera.com/?contentid=16&id=1036&previous=

It is also in a book called PORSCHE The Essence of Performance. I am not sure of the exact paint code.

Jamie

You guys may be a wuss. I've been riding a motorcycle to work for 35 years. I February (the coldest month by far) it frequently got down to 20 degrees F. at the bottom of the local freeway canyons before sunrise.

So try kicking out the windshield, lowering the top, leave the windows at home, and lose the doors and you to might approach my ride. Had to wear those thin office pants too, not some flannel lined blue jeans.

I used to joke with my buddies about those old cycle movies where the outlaws rode into town with "500 pounds of hot steel between their legs". My version was "a freezing wind blowing up the crotch . . ."

That car is incredible Jamie! Great model to recreate! David you've got big COJONES driving that bike like that, let me tell you, although by your own description they do get frozen...:)

Bay area, Northern California. Previously, Orange County, about 6 miles from Knotts. Car is locked in the garage for the rainy season.

David, After a bike ride at that temp I bet you can't even find it when you get to work
until you warm up for a while.

Hi all:
Just got home from the local mall. 9 deg. F. and thats without any heat. as the chico motor came with out heater boxes on the headers. BBBRRRRRR!
But that's nothing. A couple of weeks ago it was so cold in wyoming (-24F) That the power steering fluid on my 18 wheeler gelled up and was next to impossible to turn. Yikes! That sucks.

Jerry
rapid city, south dakota

Jerry you can consider replacing the j-pipes on your motor with EMPI or Bugpack 1-1/2" heater boxes....