posted 12-30-2014 05:14 PM                  

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Originally posted by tangled up in BLUE:
...real long story made short...bought a new silver Prowler in Virginia, headed back towards Indiana...left the hotel, it was 53 degrees and sunny, not far down the highway I encountered one of the worst blizzards I have ever driven in
...snow got deep fast, soon there was no traffic on the interstate except me and the car following me home...it got deep, got dark, sleet, the silver Kat looked like a frozen Coke at the first gas stop...covered with a couple inches of brown ice, sand and pea gravel from the road crew we followed for a hundred miles or so
...finally get into Ohio, very little snow, but black ice for miles and miles, traveling at 5-10 mph for hours...I was off the side of the interstate hoping for better traction
...finally, after traveling over 6 states with no license plates, the ice tore the temp plates off early in the day, I rolled into New Castle about 3am, and left the silver cat looking filthy for the next 4 months without touching it.

I checked the VIN# out recently, and found out that Efrem now owns that Prowler. Sorry Efrem

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posted 12-30-2014 06:58 PM                  

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Originally posted by tangled up in BLUE:
...the Orange Prowler was driven 27k miles in 18 months, all of one winter and part on another...I decided I was going to use it as a regular car just to see how it did
...it sat outside most of the winter, covered with snow, ice, salt, sand etc...it was filthy, brown icicles hung from all corners, slush frozen to the underside...I remember driving it one really snowy slushy day in Indy and the looks of horror I got at each stop light, people couldn't believe a Prowler was out in the nasty conditions...the rule was, if I could get it out of the driveway, it was on the road for the day...most of the winter it was almost solid white from road salt...I kept the interior spotless, but the exterior didn't look so great, LOL
...I did drive it to some meeting in Detroit, bad snow, snow drifts, slush etc etc...I remember doing donuts in the parking lot of a restaurant in the fresh snow...it could handle a 6" snow easily, but icy streets were somewhat thrilling...the rear tires were definitely not designed for snow, but I got the car everywhere I needed to go all winter long except one time and that was my fault for parking wrong in deep snow and the city snow plow buried it
...would I do it again, probably not, but it was fun

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Originally posted by tangled up in BLUE:
...real long story made short...bought a new silver 2000 Prowler in Virginia, headed back towards Indiana...left the hotel, it was 53 degrees and sunny, not far down the highway I encountered one of the worst blizzards I have ever driven in
...snow got deep fast, soon there was no traffic on the interstate except me and the car following me home...it got deep, got dark, sleet, the silver Kat looked like a frozen Coke at the first gas stop...covered with a couple inches of brown ice, sand and pea gravel from the road crew we followed for a hundred miles or so
...finally get into Ohio, very little snow, but black ice for miles and miles, traveling at 5-10 mph for hours...I was off the side of the interstate hoping for better traction
...finally, after traveling over 6 states with no license plates, the ice tore the temp plates off early in the day, I rolled into New Castle about 3am, hit the car wash a few blocks from home, sprayed off the ice, salt, rocks, slush and everything else that had frozen to the car over the 7-800 miles of snow, ice slush, sleet, freezing rain, amazingly, the Kat was perfect...wish I had owned a Go-Pro during that trip, it would have made one helluva YouTube video, although it would probably have had to be censored

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I must say...I'm impressed!!!

Larry...you taken the Prowler down a road many of us will NEVER venture down.

posted 12-31-2014 02:42 PM                  

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I did drive it to some meeting in Detroit, bad snow, snow drifts, slush etc etc...I remember doing donuts in the parking lot of a restaurant in the fresh snow...it could handle a 6" snow easily, but icy streets were somewhat thrilling...the rear tires were definitely not designed for snow, but I got the car everywhere I needed to go all winter long except one time and that was my fault for parking wrong in deep snow and the city snow plow buried it.

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Larry....wasn't that for the CAPP Tribute event in February 2002?

posted 12-31-2014 10:44 PM                  

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Originally posted by CJ:
[QUOTE][B]I did drive it to some meeting in Detroit, bad snow, snow drifts, slush etc etc...I remember doing donuts in the parking lot of a restaurant in the fresh snow...it could handle a 6" snow easily, but icy streets were somewhat thrilling...the rear tires were definitely not designed for snow, but I got the car everywhere I needed to go all winter long except one time and that was my fault for parking wrong in deep snow and the city snow plow buried it.

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Larry....wasn't that for the CAPP Tribute event in February 2002?[/B][/QUOTE]