No worries in Atlanta .
Every time you see two flakes within a 24 hour period , everything closes
for a week and the stores get cleaned out !
:)
At 08:56 AM 12/24/1998 -0500, you wrote:
> Disclaimer: The following statement is not meant, in any way, shape or
>form. To constitute another battle within the DML on the subject of "this
>vs that". Examples being, v6 vs v8, 2wd vs 4wd, auto vs standard, club cab
>vs standard cab etc etc etc........... This is just an observation made by
>one Dakota owner on his way to work one morning following a night of snow
>(that would be me). I would call "4WD Weather" in a spell. So
>recently my views have been getting questionable on why a have
>this 4WD slowing me down when I never use it anymore? Let me tell you, when
>the new R/T's came out it really drove the point home, and I was spending
>many a afternoon down at the local dealer eyeballing the new trucks coming
in.
>Well this morning the Weather Gods decided to show me why I have 4WD! As I
>awoke to a good 5 inches of snow on the ground!!!.......So I proceed to
>work in the snow. A few miles down the road at a local intersection I come
>up behind a brand new R/T, sweeeet!......The light turns green and we're
>off, errr well sorta, as the R/T takes the corner the rear end beginds to
>kick out on him and I'm watching that Limited slip try to grab some
>traction in the snow going up the road.......After fish tailing about 50
>yards he gets it under controll. I on the other hand just proceed no
>problem behind him, cringing everytime the rear end kicks out on the R/T
>and I excpect to see him go into a ditch. I stayed behind him for another 5
>miles or so down a stretch of road that has few traffic lights along the
>way. Every time it was the same, light turns green and the R/T takes at
>least 25 yards to get it's "feet" under it, and the driver wasn't jumping
>on it either as he had a little old lady in front of him jumping on the
>brakes every 3 feet. Well after a bit he takes a right and I watch him fish
>tail up the road to where ever he was going and I continue forward to work
>loving my 4WD as I watch people skiding off the road left and right.
>A couple side notes:
>1. I still want a R/T baaaddd!!! I have no question about it's ability to
>blow my truck away in a race!
>2. Another thing about Dakota 4WD is that I get to actually shift it into
>4WD! Unlike other Companies Trucks who will remain un-named here. I don't
>press a stupid button on my dash board for "traction controll" There's just
>something about grabbing that shifter and slamming it into 4WD........Maybe
>it's a guy thing??......Can I get a "HELL YA!"?
>3. I passed a vehicle in the woods this morning, and the only person who
>bothered to pull over and lend a hand was a man driving a big ole' RAM
>2500. Showing that not only are Dodge Trucks better. But the people who buy
>them are a better class of people themselves!!
>MERRY CHRISMAS!!!
>Thanks for reading my long story, no flames please.........(read
disclaimer).
>"psychonaut"
>
Jack Hilton
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