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Subject:Re: Deep Water Driving/Snow Depth
From:Tony Schiebel
Date:Wed, 13 Dec 1995 12:16:23 -0700 (MST)

On Wed, 13 Dec 1995 12:21:44 -0600 Derek 
Drew <drew@interport.net> wrote:

> 
> >parallel to us and there was a crossroad that connected the two
> >roads together.  It was about 100 yards long and covered in 
> >2 1/2 - 3 feet of fluffy snow.  I immediately thought of Derek
> >Drew!!
> 
> Well, even though I haven't had time to write in lately with any reports I
> just got the pictures back from my latest 4 wheeling trip to Vermont. 
> 
> The coolest picture shows the van driving across a, um, I guess you'd call
> it a lake that was in the way of the road/path. My fogg lamps are in the
> body of the vehicle at the same height as the turn signal lenzes. As I drove
> through this lake the fogg lamps went dark because they were under water.
> 
> The van drove right through with no problem. Obviously, as least part of the
> motor was under water, though obviously not the distributor, or I would have
> stalled. Anyway, ever since driving through this thing the van no longer
> idles so perfectly as it has before and sometimes stalls when bone cold on a
> cold day after starting it. I even have to hit the pedal some times to get
> it to start. 
> 

Derek,

I'm probably not speaking just for myself, but maybe you should scan 
those pictures and put them on the Web.  Wink, Wink...

Cheers
Tony

P.S. - It is snowing *AGAIN* today.  Yea Ha!!!

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