Happy New Year gang!

We spent a rainy evening in Disneyland. It was fun, but cold. Been a very long time since I had to layer.

Happy Friday Everyone! :happy0180: Going to be COLD in Jacksonville this weekend --- BRRRRRRRRR!!!

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Happy Friday everyone!

Auction drivers meeting today. It's almost that time of year again! Cars, cars, cars! :clap2:

Have FUN Rick! I'll be watching. Going to the Barrett-Jackson in Palm Beach, FL in April.

The ABS works even at 2mph... the thing that makes it strange, ABS doesn't know how to feather the brakes, it only knows "full on" and "full off" and does it very quickly. When you're going slow on ice it feels like the brakes are malfunctioning.

Having said that, yes your front brakes could possibly have been locked up, but then you wouldn't be able to steer. If it's FWD, the backs could be frozen but the car would be tail happy, like a dog about to get a treat.

I would venture a guess, the only thing that changed from your past experiences, this time it was so slick you could hardly stand up on it. When it's super cold you can get a slight amount of grip on ice, when it's close to 32deg or the sun is out, and there's a bit of water on top of the ice, that's when things get crazy slick.

edit: I re-read your post, you may have had a brake or two that was frozen in the open position, or ice in-between the pad and rotor, and when you braked it cracked up the ice.

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Regarding ice on brakes, semi's still use drum brakes and when the parking brake is set it locks all five axles, not just one or two. If a driver was running in rain then stops and sets his wet brakes for the night the pads freeze to the drums. Occasionally in the winter you'll see long skid marks where the trailer axles were locked but the driver didn't realize it and drove away :sm0:

A couple weeks ago in Kansas a driver blew four of his trailer tires, pulled them till they popped!

When they're frozen and you pull forward till they break free it makes a pretty good bang, may have been what you experienced.

Not this one, to far to drive from San Diego.

I'll know in July .....

I'm going to try to make it......:biggrin:

That's scary!!! Glad you made it home safe!

I had to drive home in a little weather myself last Thursday. We had a lake effect storm hit during the evening rush hour. Snow was falling at 3-4" an hour. I know to stay off the main roads during heavy snow so I took back roads as much as i could. Took me about double my normal commute time which was way better than most who were stuck in traffic for 4-6 hours. I would say we got about 18-24" during the event.

Our winter beater Escape died over Christmas it needs about $1000 in brake work so we decided to sell it to someone my wife knows for $500 and we leased her a new Equinox in Siren Red Tintcoat. She told me the AWD worked well in the snow. Not sure about the fest I will think about it and decide later about going.

Rick ---- Barrett Jackson +++++

Jan ---- That was your anti/lock brakes on glare ice. They stop and release the breaks 20 times a second. It makes the most awful sound. Will not be able to get to the fest. Work gets in the way.

Trick --- those 40 degrees look ruff. My heart bleeds.

The better half helped me nail some door casing painted flat black as a frame for the 2 foot by 6 foot banner. Hung it in the cheese hole/car garage this weekend. The black turned out better than staining/varnishing it.

John

Looks good John! It was 26 here Sunday morning - Nothing like what you experience but darn COLD for us Floridians! I had to wear tennis shoes instead of flip flops.

Trick --- My dad is down in Englewood. He is complaining also !!

John

John - Thank goodness that our COLD weather does not last long!!!

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Hi gang!

I love those posters John! Very cool.

Sorry to hear of the cold weather everyone. We had a nice weekend here, and I debuted the Caprice at our Paviliions Cruise. Here is my photo album:
https://onewaystreet.smugmug.com/Car...ions-1-7-2017/

Click on the thumbnail to see the larger photo.

Many of my Barrett Jackson friends already started working. There were probably about 300 cars already there on Friday. Saturday,they started video-ing them and parking them. I start on Thursday. The actual auction starts Monday and will feature about 100+ cars. This year, I work the morning shift, 8 am to 5 pm, so I may not be on TV too much. Every day is televised, I think on Velocity and Discovery?

Two vendors, Factory Five and some other, will be performing builds during the entire auction, and one of them will be sold on Sunday. There are 1738 consignments on the docket, so it's going to be epic. :thumb:

I'd like to also, but I have many years of working before I can retire.

I'm with you 100+ nights a year in a hotel room is getting old!

For 38 years I put 250 to 300 nights a year in the sleeper of my truck driving 49 states.:faint:

That's a lot of nights away from home to support your family! And I understand as I used to run Over-The-Road Irregular Route Trucking Companies.

Yah but since retiring 12 yr's ago I get to spend more time with the kids Shouldn't call them kids anymore but bad habit. Oldest is 52 youngest 47. Daughter moved to Fla. w/3 grand sons 2 years ago. Just lucky I wanted to retire early. The wife and I worked are butts off to get out early so I retired at 59.

Haven't posted here in a while......how's everybody doing?

Happy belated New Year to all.

I finally can see light at the end of the tunnel......I have narrowed down my retirement and move South to July 2020! By that November, we will have a Florida address!!

Crazy weather these days, 60+ yesterday, now tomorrow (Saturday) cold and some snow expected!!! Just enough to make things crappy on the roads.

Peace to all!!
Andy

We have not put down a date yet but our current goal is summer\fall of 2023. Too far out to count down yet but close enough to see and plan for. We talked with a financial planner who went over our income, savings, and expenses and we are on track to meet that date and our pension and retirement savings should be enough to live comfortably on.

Health Insurance is a real concern to have. Right now Jackie has lifetime insurance with her employer. There is a monthly premium with it but its pretty affordable. Of course we are praying it does not get negotiated away in a future contract. Luckily the amount of employees left that qualify for it is small so not much would be saved by getting them to give it up.

Hello folks .
Rick looking forward to the auction .
John . I love the corvette .
Jan . I would love to go to the fest but it is the same wknd as my Indy car wknd in Toronto . I hope to make it to camaro superfest in michigan july 4th wknd .

In my mind my retirement would be in 5 yrs , i think my wife would say 7 yrs lol

I am just finding this thread. At 62 (is that my IQ and age both?), I am doing my best to resist growing up.

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Welcome=== I don't really think anyone on this thread has even thought about growing up yet.:iono::doh:

I browsed through a few of the posts regarding retirement and healthcare. I know that is an equation that I have had a bit of an issue with solving, at least till I turn 65.