Does anyone know how to put a snow plow on the front of my 61 Vette?

[studiog]

Yes I'm kidding, but if the snow continues for a few more days maybe I won't be!

 

[WayneC]

No, I don't know how to attach a snowplow, but I can remember a few times back in the mid-70's when I used the front end of my 63 AS a snowplow!!!

One friday night in particular, when I was travelling from Detroit to a ski resort near Buffalo... a 5 hour trip took me about 10 hours in a blizzard, with a 3am arrival after having bulled my way through drifts across unplowed roads; one drift took me about 4 runs at it before I could get through (hit it, back off a hunnert feet or so, gun it and hit it again). Better that than freeze to death!

Another time I had made a similar trip by train, returning to Detroit at 11pm in a blizzard and spent an hour digging my 63 out of the downtown parking lot with a borrowed shovel, then had to stuff/bury the car into a snowbank at a grocery store about a block from my house at 2 am to get it off the main street (8-Mile road; snowplows would go right through it otherwise). Because the side streets hadn't been plowed, the result of plowing the major streets was a 3 to 4 foot ice berm blocking them, so I couldn't turn off. Trudged home in deep snow, then went back the next morning and dug it out to go to work.

 

[IH2LOSE]

You know its cool to think that some of the fellows on this web site were actually driving these cars as dailey drivers.I have a C5 at home that is not used every day.Folks used to go into a chevy dealer and pick out a vette and snow sleet,rain you name it these were peoples every day cars.I just could not imagine taking my 66 out on a day like the last few we had.

 

[JohnZ]

Another time I had made a similar trip by train, returning to Detroit at 11pm in a blizzard and spent an hour digging my 63 out of the downtown parking lot with a borrowed shovel, then had to stuff/bury the car into a snowbank at a grocery store about a block from my house at 2 am to get it off the main street (8-Mile road; snowplows would go right through it otherwise). Because the side streets hadn't been plowed, the result of plowing the major streets was a 3 to 4 foot ice berm blocking them, so I couldn't turn off. Trudged home in deep snow, then went back the next morning and dug it out to go to work.

If you had enough shovels, you could get out of a snowbank these days at 2 AM on 8 Mile Road with no problem - there's a hooker about every 50 feet at that hour :eek

 

[WayneC]

If you had enough shovels, you could get out of a snowbank these days at 2 AM on 8 Mile Road with no problem - there's a hooker about every 50 feet at that hour :eek

I can imagine. My property backed up to 8-mile. It was a pretty nice neighborhood when I bought my first house in the early 70's, but I probably missed the writing on the wall because it began changing quickly.

I left in 1979 and things weren't so great even then. My next door neighbor was burglarized twice. The guy across the street (both had corner houses) was burglarized once and then in a separate incident, mugged for his wallet in his own garage when he got home from his dental office one evening.

There was an embarrassing moment for the police department one time... due to complaints of cars frequently running a stop sign about a block from my house, the police stationed a car with 2 officers to try to catch the scofflaws. While there they struck up a running banter most of the day with movers who were working at a house across the street from where they parked. Turned out the "movers" were actually thieves, dressed as professional movers and with a professional moving van, who emptied that entire house of it's furnishings. The owners reported the robbery when they got home from work. The cops had no clue who did it, never caught the guys.

Took a bath on my house, but I don't regret the decision to move west.

 

[Vanity Plate Bob]

Check with Monster Garage. They are building the Vet 4wd mud runner as I write.

 

[studiog]

Oh yes, monster garage... Take a decent vehicle do allot of welding and turn it into useless junk, over and over again. I use to like this program but now I'm not sure why.

 

[IH2LOSE]

Oh yes, monster garage... Take a decent vehicle do allot of welding and turn it into useless junk, over and over again. I use to like this program but now I'm not sure why.

I was very happy it was not a real low production car or a significant peice of corvette history.It could of been real worse.