Re: Sorta O/T: Trying to buy a new truck rant

From: Terrible Tom (silvereightynine@aol.com)
Date: Fri Jul 24 2009 - 19:43:56 EDT


Jason Bleazard wrote:
> On Fri, July 24, 2009 3:56 pm, Michael Maskalans wrote:
>
>>And to the OP who doesn't want a 4x4 in southern ON, I really think
>>you're nuts. :-)
>>It's a regional thing, most in this area who are going to bother to
>>have a truck want to use it in the winter without getting stuck in a
>>parking spot when you park on ice and come in off the highway with hot
>>tires that melt in, and have the snowplow come by....
>
>
> Not to mention Jon's Cadillac-eating driveway (ask Bob Tom or Jim Knox
> about glare ice on that slope).
>

Heh - Stock 95 4x4 XJ's with balding street tires, don't do very well on that slope in the
winter either hehe

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