{"id":2630,"date":"2005-03-30T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-30T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitfoster.com\/carport\/2005\/03\/snow-job\/"},"modified":"2010-12-30T12:02:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T17:02:06","slug":"snow-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitfoster.com\/carport\/2005\/03\/snow-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Orient<\/a><\/p>\n

The response to last week’s snow feature has been remarkable – the topic clearly resonates with our visitors, and not a few of you are as tired of snow as I am. Jim Benjaminson reports that there’s still plenty of snow in North Dakota, where this Orient Buckboard was photographed about a hundred years ago on the streets of Milton. They didn’t have snow tires, so our inventive Dakotans wrapped some rope around the rear tires.<\/p>\n

\"Austin<\/a><\/p>\n

Maybe skittishness about snow is a New World thing. Joris Bergsma, our mentor who runs the inspirational PreWarCar.com<\/a>, says the Dutch don’t have problems driving their old cars in snow. He sent this pic of Bas Jansen exercising<\/a> his Austin Seven special in the recent snowfalls in The Netherlands. Bas, with his father Gerrit, runs Carrosserie Bouw Jansen<\/a> (not to be confused with Jensen Motors<\/a>, the British coachbuilders who bodied many well-known 1950s-70s cars<\/a>). Bas and his father built the anatomically-correct aluminum body<\/a> for this special.<\/p>\n

Europeans seem to revel in winter driving. Who else would organize a February rally<\/a> for historic cars, the Neige et Glace<\/a>, held annually in France.<\/p>\n

Mother Nature did not take kindly to my last week’s comments. Hardly had I posted to the CarPort than she sent another helping of wet snow<\/a> to Connecticut. It’s melting now, though. Soon we’ll be able to start our spring plowing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The response to last week’s snow feature has been remarkable – the topic clearly resonates with our visitors, and not a few of you are as tired of snow as I am. Jim Benjaminson reports that there’s still plenty of snow in North Dakota, where this Orient Buckboard was photographed about a hundred years ago….<\/span>
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