MGB: Any MG's in snow??

Anyone have snow yet? I would love to see some B's in the snow. Or at least some snow. Thanks.

I've been driving em in the snow since age 16 and l love to do so. I've also been scolded on this site for doing so ---- because of the salt on the highway I'm told.

Sure is fun though to strap a sleigh on the luggage rack and head out for a nice slope and I guess I'll continue doing so :) :) :)

I mean this year. Naomi, I am sure you have driven your's in snow . You are up in the beautiful mountains of Virginia, high enough to get snow fairly often I would think.

Nope no snow yet but I'm a hoping :) :)

Here's one...first snow of ...2003... my MGC got caught outside...

Snowed here Friday.....but being New Mexico, by the time I got the camera out it was melted (being 400 miles south of Denver makes ALL the difference).

Hey Lloyd,
Have you ever heard af a guy named Lyle Hess?

yamahauler, can't say I have. Most of my family came down from Pennsylvania.

No snow here yet, probably not until December...I won't take the B out when it does snow because DELDOT salts the roads.

2003...

Took me 19 years to undo the results of winter driving (rust). I don't go out unless the roads are practically bare - and free from salt!

But - the cars mostly do fine in winter. The carbs never really run right below about -20C. They are very cranky at -30C (about -25F). But I have started my B in -40C/-40F weather without having it plugged in. But my baby's days of having to put up with that are behind her! Now - my wife just wishes that we would move someplace warm so her days of putting up with that would be behind her too! ;)

here are a few....

another....

more! North Creek in the adirondacks....

Used to drive my 64 in the snow all the time in the late 60s early 70s. I did have studded snow tires on the rear though. A favorite memory is being on a ski trip in Aspen Co, February 1972 and seeing Porsche 911s and a Jaguar XKE with ski racks on the back - beautiful!

I took this one of my A in the snow last year

Bought my first one new in 1974 and was my only vehicle for 13 years, so yes I drove it in snow. My little snow plow....

None yet here but not too far off. I will have to put on the studded tires pretty soon as the HTR200's are useless in the snow.

I don't recomend this in anyway. When I was younger and less wise. I was having trouble getting traction in about 5" of snow with a 73 midget, well I grabed the luggage rack and my wife drove the car home while I sort of went skiing. It was a very small town and no police. Yes it was fun.

Here is a picture from last year, but it was repeated this week. I had two slow mornings driving to work, but the B handles OK in the snow. It was either the B, the Mini or the Riley Elf. (that is Austin Mini, nto a BMW imposter)
Bruce
Norhtern Colorado

[quote=balloonfoot]
Snowed here Friday.....but being New Mexico, by the time I got the camera out it was melted (being 400 miles south of Denver makes ALL the difference).[/quote]

What is your altitude? At my aunt's place in Red River at 8,700 feet it tends to stick ok. On a related note, how well does a B run at ~9,000+ feet?

Got snow? :d

[quote=ingoldsb]
Took me 19 years to undo the results of winter driving (rust). I don't go out unless the roads are practically bare - and free from salt!
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Didn't take me 19 yrs but my LBCs don't go out after the first salt truck strikes either. I have sacrificial Detroit iron for that purpose. Besides, I doubt Hagerty would take too kindly to a phone call reporting I slid off the road in a blizard! :(

No snow yet but dont need this again!
RS

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH maybe it will pass by.

Where are all the Denver club guys? Gotta have some snow pix up there!!!

[quote="Bob Agar"]
Where are all the Denver club guys? Gotta have some snow pix up there!!![/quote]

Donno about Denver but we hit 64 today and all the snow below 8500 feet has evaporated. Just a liitle left under the pine trees. Looking up to the mountains is sweet though.

Last November...

Not yet this year but this was a couple of years ago (it is also the screensaver at work in order to remind me to finish the damn car).

Hers an old one. '05 I think. No snow yet this year.

Last Year December 6 to be exact

Hi Peter,
Good to see you back on the forum, had a great time with you all at Belleville and looking forward to seing you all again next year.
Car is going in for the first pair of mod's on friday ready for the trip over.
Roger

New Orleans last year. 9 out of 10 years, we never get below 32 degrees.

Outside Ouray Colorado...........original Mineral Blue '67 GT

That ST spoiler is great for clearing the driveway!!

Read a little story, in "MG Driver" or other, but something about the guy having a beater TR3 just so he could drive it in the snow. It all makes sense to me. I remember piling 3 girls into my 64 and going off Christmas shopping ... wish I could do that again!

[quote=yamahauler]
Hey Lloyd,
Have you ever heard af a guy named Lyle Hess?[/quote]

Being a wooden boat nut, I've heard of him.

Here's a picture of Phil and Dallas Smith in their pro-rally MGB/GT...