When we were kids, snow was the best thing ever. It meant that school was possibly delayed or, if the odds favored us, closed. It meant that sledding and snowball fights were options, and it meant that we got to make a snowman out in front of the house. Now that you’re an adult, snow is a friggin’ headache, isn’t it? Gotta dig a path to the car. Gotta start the car, and if the odds are on your side and it did start, you had to clear a path to get your car out of the driveway, then hope your street got plowed and pray that you don’t get into an accident on the way to work.
Snow for most of the U.S. does bring about feelings of holiday cheer, though, and in that spirit, seeing how we are just over a week away from the big day, now seems like a great time to share this video, which shows a couple of guys playing in the snow with a big-block Buick GS to Bing Crosby’s “Winter Wonderland” It’s simple, it’s fun, and it’s something we all are guilty of doing at least once.
LOL this is what happened to these cars back in the 70s, they made great winter beaters and were punished mercilessly !! Love it
Empty parking lots were my favorite but really any unplowed road would do in high school in my ’76 Camaro. Actually my Fiero was even better but didn’t have that V8 sound.
After an evening of too much snow and nobody in their right mind should be out kinda cold, my buddy and I decided to go to his pizza shop for a early morning snack after working in the garage. I pulled up across the street and made a 180 into something like a 1440 degree turn leaving marks in the fresh snow on the road. Few minutes later there is a knock on the door and a Sheriff is standing there. He asks whose car this is and are those my tracks. I reply yes and he proceeds to cite me for “power turns that served no purpose”. He definitely wasn’t a car guy.
The grill on that car is huge money. I wouldnt have done it.
this same tomfoolery is equally as fun in a c5- 50/50 weight balance means it goes like hell as long as you’re not high centered; a blip of the throttle at 30mph and it beomes one helluva tilt-a-whirl!