From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!hou5f!hou5b!hou5c!hou5e!hou5a!mat
Newsgroups: net.auto
Title: Re: Locking Brakes and Skids
Article-I.D.: hou5a.203
Posted: Fri Jan 14 08:04:27 1983
Received: Sat Jan 15 07:57:21 1983
References: ihuxn.207

Having the engine over the drive wheels DOES help pull through snow MOST
of the time.  Here is one situation where it is probably at least a partial
liability.
  If you drive in the city ( in NY City, for those who don't live around there )
you will find that after having parked in a snowbank in the evening ( there is
often nowhere else to park ) the heat from the engine will have melted the
snow under the front end, and after the engine has cooled the snow has re-
frozen. All those blocks and chunks of snow that the plows piled up while
you were parked are now glazed ice, and you will very likely have to either
dig or rock your way out while rear-wheel drive cars just drive away!
					hou5a!mat