>  When it was -4 for a few days the big plastic cooling thing
> exploded,

Please clarify.

After our big blizzard in Chicago last winter, I put my jumps seats in the back
above the engine for a couple of weeks.  No hills here, but the snow got pretty
deep.
  I do miss the traction I had with my '76 bus, when the spare and the gas tank
were in the back.
  Now my old 411 would go thru some serious snow...

Larry A.