Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Hagerty Classic Car Driving (Lashdeep Singh)

[Hans E. Hansen (FList]

Isn't brine and salt the same thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brine

Hans.

On 8/6/19, Peter Rychel <dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
> I haven’t driven my 308 during the last couple of winters because now
> they’re using brine on the roads. There just has to be a hint of freezing in
> the forecast and out come the trucks...
>
> That brine is way worse than salt.
>
> Peter
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> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Hagerty Classic Car Driving (Lashdeep Singh)
>
> So local data points:
>
> 1.  Salt?  Please.  The chance of furries cancels school.
> 2.  As long as you’re not doing 45 through the middle of a neighborhood, the
> police are fairly tolerant.  They’d rather set up sobriety check points at
> 2:00 AM on the main throughways for revenue collection.  If you want to go
> faster than 100 mph, get your pilots license.
> 3.  Plenty of decent paved roads here, the Appalachians end mid state.  Head
> south of Montgomery and it’s basically like driving in north Florida.
> Porsche’s track school is at Barber.  Fantastic course and facility (hell,
> there is hot water in the bathrooms by pit lane!)
>
>
>
> On Aug 6, 2019, at 5:48 AM, George
> <ygpz4re [at] hotmail.com<mailto:ygpz4re [at] hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I think Lashdeep's spot on.
>
>
>   1.
> Particularly in the northeast.  What the road salt did to some of my cars
> when I lived in Syracuse was pretty horrific.  In the end, one of them
> couldn't even pass inspection due to structural degradation from the salt
> corrosion.
>   2.
> This is really hit or miss.  I hear/read an awful lot of complaining about
> the VA state police attitudes, but I don't see it myself.  I'm no longer
> concerned about whether or not I can get away with 100mph - I just want to
> "win the game" of keeping my hard earned $$$ in my pocket, not turning them
> over to "Uncle Ralphie".
>   3.
> This is a big one for me.  Dad brought his vintage Jags to FL at different
> times, but stopped doing that because the roads down there were so utterly
> BORING.  No fun places at all to drive those cars.  At least that's not a
> problem here.
>
> As usual, FWIW, YMMV, yadda yadda....
>
> gp
>
> ________________________________
> From: Lashdeep Singh <lashdeep [at] yahoo.com<mailto:lashdeep [at] yahoo.com>>
>
> Good article, thanks for sending it.
>
> Here are some other criteria that may interest us-
>
> 1. Salt use
> 2. Police attitude
> 3. Some sort of ?fun factor? to the roads
>
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