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

[Hans E. Hansen (FList]

For the last few years, around here they've been using a glycol spray.
Seems to work well, doesn't wash away immediately.

Propylene glycol, I'm sure - need to stay non-toxic.

Hans.

On 8/6/19, Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org> wrote:
> 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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