Cold Enough For You?

Fiats , one of the worst cars made, thats why we in the US junked em years ago. Just like the Yugo. I havnt seen a fiat on the road for years. So yours starts a couple degrees below freezing, well thats just amazing try your feeaat 4 degrees colder haaa haaa . American , runs when you need it, and here we go to 30 Below.

Hi, What is cold?

-33C with windchill of -41C today. Business as usual. All 4 cars in my family started on first crank this morning. No big deal. Tony

Same car. The old Fiat tooling was shipped to Yugoslovia.

same subject.....

50° F: New Yorkers try to turn on the heat. People in New England plant gardens.

32° F: Distilled water freezes. Maine's Moose head Lake's water gets thicker.

15° F: New York landlords finally turn up the heat. People in New England have the last cookout before it gets cold.

-10° F: Californians fly away to Mexico. The Girl Scouts in New England are selling cookies door to door.

-20° F: Hollywood disintegrates. People in New England get out their winter coats.

-50° F: Washington DC runs out of hot air. People in New England let the dogs sleep indoors.

-100° F: Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. New Englanders get frustrated because they can't start their "kahs."

-460° F: All atomic motion stops (absolute zero on the Kelvin scale). People in New England start saying, "cold 'nuff for ya?"

-500° F: Hell freezes over. The Red Sox win the World Series.

An aside about lemon cars.

This was more than 20 years ago and VolkWagen was getting out of their only business, their Beetle, to move into new models. My late brother bought their interim model (before the Golf or Jetta came out). Man was it weird.

1. The engine was rear mounted aircooled. So no waste heat from the radiator coolant to feed the car heater. For heat there was a dingy little catalytic heater under the front hood that burnt gasoline. Not exactly the safest thingy nor did it ever output enough heat. Must have been sized for European winters. Of course with our below 20 deg C type Canadian winters common the insides of the windows frosted up bad and needed frequent stops by the roadside to scrape the frost.

He had parked it once at the airport over several very cold days. The engine was too frozen to start. Took a little charcoal hibachi to heat the engine's sump. Worked.

1. The windshield washer fluid did not have a pump and ran off the air from the spare tire. The consequence was frequent stops to pressurize the spare tire when driving on slushy days. When there is infrequent use on warmer days the spare tire pressure is allowed to decrease until it no longer pressurises the washer. Doesn't quite describe the frustration when one gets a flat on a good day. Now picture when its that cold the road tires sometimes go soft, the tire seal parts from the rim and you've got a flat. In those days it was not uncommon to have cars parked in the driveway to have all four tires flat after a cold night. Hooboy.
2. There were more unbelieveable stories about that car that I cannot recall at this moment but this one will always stick in my memory. During a very cold spell I had to borrow his car as mine was in the shop. His battery was on its last legs so I bought a new one and installed it under the passenger seat where it was factory located. Things were hunky dory until I took on a passenger. The moment he sat down there were loud cracks of a battery arching. He shot out of the seat. The noise disappeared. Sat down again and there were sparks and smoke galore. Pulled the seat forward to look at the battery. What happened was that when he sat down the seat springs shorted the battery terminals. It had not happened before because the old installation had battery terminal covers that I left off because it wouldn't fit the new terminals!

Reminded me of my two favorite jokes about the Yugo:

Q. Why do Yugos come with back window defrosters? A. To keep your hands warm while you're pushing it home.

Q. How do you double the value of a Yugo? A: Fill the gas tank.

AJS

That's interesting. Thought I was the original. I travel light, everything in one carry-on bag. Clothed in aT-shirt, shorts and a pair of sandals. Darn comfortable and a real advantage when making washroom pit stops. Gets me in and out through airport checks in a jiffy. For an extra change of clothes its so much more easier to buy, on arrival, T-Shirts with far more interesting prints of the local scene. The same goes for clean briefs and wife- beaters. This sure beats doing laundry on the move. If unplanned meetings calls for a neat dress shirt just buy another one.

Fiat? Fix It Again, Tony. I had an 850 Spider. Read a classified ad that read "World's Worst Car -- will pay $100 for you to haul it away." When it ran (rarely), it was great. Lovely little road-hugging sportscar. San Francisco dealership advertised that theiir mechanics had factory training in maintenance and repair, and "have very small hands." It had the mechanical personality of a spoiled poodle.

You know it cold out when you pee outside and it freezes before it hits the ground and pops. You know its cold when you throw a cup of warm water in the air and it evaporates before it hits the ground in a hissing noise.

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All right, let's get them all out of the way:

It was so cold I saw a chicken with a capon...

It was so cold I saw a dog frozen to a fire hydrant...

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I used to have a VW bus with a gas heater. The heater's outlet was right behind the spare tire; I believe the idea was to heat up the spare and then dismount it and carry it on your lap. Also, when you turned off the ignition, the indicator light for the rear window defroster went off, but the defroster stayed on until your battery drained. I found this out in Cambridge, Mass, on a 4 degree day with a stiff wind.

Do believe it was my '66 bug that had the windshield washer pressurized by the spare tire. Been 30 years and I still miss it. Miss my Karmen Ghia convertable, too.

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