I've never seen 52 below but I know that 30 below was already a tough
grind for my 1964 Opel Kadet. I used to have to put it to bed at night
with a battery charger connected, a 150 watt trouble light snuggled up
against the battery to keep it warm and covered over with a fiberglass
insulating blanket. Then a tarp over the hood hanging down to the
ground to keep the wind from carrying away the heat. Then, in the
morning it was necessary to strip all this off very quickly and spray
some ether into the carburetor. After all this, if it didn't start by
the second crank it was all over. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 5/4/2012 4:03 PM, Paul Laughlin wrote:
> The first winter that I spent at Loring AFB, there was 186 inches of
> snow and the lowest temp was 52 below zero F. That low temp was the
> reading on one of those long thermometers hung on a post at the border
> crossing. When I asked the customs agent what the temp was, he walked
> over and checked it, shivered and came back to say 52 below. That was
> around 3:00AM and I was returning from a dance in Canada. When we went
> out to the parking lot that morning, out of a couple of hundred cars, 5
> of them started. My 48 Chev was not one of them. LOL So we walked to work.
> Paul in Portland OR
>
> On 5/4/2012 5:04 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> You can't be a real Mainer unless your great grandparents x 12 were born
>> here. But they say if you move to Maine, survive your first winter, and then
>> stay for another one you can be a Mainiac. (This past winter doesn't count.
>> As Maine winters go, it was a real wus.)
>>
>
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