Non Elio Days

[Rickb]

Are you gifting her the car or helping her to buy it along with the money she's saved to buy a car, license, gas, maintain, and insure it?

 

[Smitty901]

Are you gifting her the car or helping her to buy it along with the money she's saved to buy a car, license, gas, maintain, and insure it?

Got it covered, farm kids earn the first car by the work they do. By the time most of the farm kids around here get a license if they were paid like most people they could buy anything they want new.
Each one of our children got the first car given to them. They used it through college and were taught to make payments to them self. That cash bought their next car to this day at 32,37 and 38 not one of our children have ever financed a new car they walk in and pay cash. We will teach the grandchildren they same system.

 

[Craig]

Like I said...



What I can't predict is whether the plows have cleared that mound of snow between the two 4 wheeler tire tracks, or how an Elio will respond to them.

The reason for the question came from the post about dragging the tail through deep snow/slush.
I was thinking maybe you could designing a ski/tire combination like this for the car.
If the snow/slush gets deeper than say four inches, the ski will take over. When this happens, you will not have the third disc brake. But you would not have it any how.

Post 115

http://www.elioowners.com/threads/e...uxiliary-blinking-etc.1968/page-12#post-28953

 

[Dusty921]

The reason for the question came from the post about dragging the tail through deep snow/slush.
I was thinking maybe you could designing a ski/tire combination like this for the car.
If the snow/slush gets deeper than say four inches, the ski will take over. When this happens, you will not have the third disc brake. But you would not have it any how.

Post 115

http://www.elioowners.com/threads/e...uxiliary-blinking-etc.1968/page-12#post-28953

Craig,
but, If the snow gets deeper than four inches the entire bottom of the Elio may end up becoming the ski!
We might have to use a variation of your idea to keep the wheel well from packing full of snow and ice!
Dusty

 

[EZ]

no worries, Mann

soon come Elio to the Islands !

no worries

 

[Dusty921]

Nice post!!...........just when I'd made up my mind to push the "ignore" button. ........

 

[ross]

Craig,
but, If the snow gets deeper than four inches the entire bottom of the Elio may end up becoming the ski!
We might have to use a variation of your idea to keep the wheel well from packing full of snow and ice!
Dusty

I'm thinking that if you take the black 'skirts' off the fender 'pods' the snow would blow out the back and not be a problem.

 

[JEBar]

I'm thinking that if you take the black 'skirts' off the fender 'pods' the snow would blow out the back and not be a problem.

thankfully, we don't get much snow in our part of the world and down the road when we do, I anticipate parking our Elio and driving one of our 4 wheel drive vehicles .... I'd figured the if/when we were to drive it in the snow that I'd remove the rear tire's skirt but hadn't thought about the front ones .... idea appreciated

Jim

 

[Music Man]

The reason for the question came from the post about dragging the tail through deep snow/slush.
I was thinking maybe you could designing a ski/tire combination like this for the car.
If the snow/slush gets deeper than say four inches, the ski will take over. When this happens, you will not have the third disc brake. But you would not have it any how.

Post 115

http://www.elioowners.com/threads/e...uxiliary-blinking-etc.1968/page-12#post-28953

Though we never have that kind of snow down here, I really like the idea; like, right out of the frozen North country.

But if the wackco's in Washington are correct, with Global Warming, NONE of us may ever need them again.

Whata Ya think, Craig??

 

[Craig]

Craig,
but, If the snow gets deeper than four inches the entire bottom of the Elio may end up becoming the ski!
We might have to use a variation of your idea to keep the wheel well from packing full of snow and ice!
Dusty

Some of the four wheeled cars with the same clearance should keep the center shaved off. After that not much of anything would move. Even the four wheeled trucks can't move if the road is blocked with cars.

Though we never have that kind of snow down here, I really like the idea; like, right out of the frozen North country.

But if the wackco's in Washington are correct, with Global Warming, NONE of us may ever need them again.

Whata Ya think, Craig??

There is global warming, just not man made.
Where I live in Ohio the ice use to be two miles thick.