volvosneverdie wrote:What it running dude?
rover V8, chevy small block?

Woah!
got something right.

Me and me old man are ment to be doing a sumo kit sooon! ive been to sumo hq and we had a ride..wow what a car..you can indeed sit in it and truly think to yourself pretty much nothing on the road can beat this.. only problem is he wants to use the 2.0 tuned..he's gone all eco in his old age..should be able to put him right though, chevy all the way!

back on topic...Snow!

germ wrote:Me and me old man are ment to be doing a sumo sooon!

Not the kind of thing I'd be admiting to but takes all sorts

germ wrote:back on topic...Snow!

Ancient history,more chance of drowning here now

Well had an interesting day out on the bike, and trying to get the car a little nearer home, which i did, but still not at home, yet.

Anyway all the cycling through deep snow then a few pints at the pub and i'm pretty mullered so i'll put up the pics of my adventures tomo.

the snow in the hills over buxton and derbyshire was very nice there was 2 foot deep snow drifts along the cat and fiddle which was closed but the volvo and me made it to the top and back and i even passed 2 4x4's stuck in the snow lol i just went slidin by with my just about legal tyres on which i think took the piss as most of the people out up there last night had 4x4's or cars with good tyres and i was in the volvo with near slick 15's and went sliding on by as people were stuck it was a fun night and it didn't end till gone past 3am today its common knowledge around here that when it snows you have to try and get up the cat and fiddle i'll post a couple of small videos in a sec of the journey

leaving home

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trip up the cat

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car park at the top of the cat and fiddle sorry about the sound in some of the vids my son was in a good singin mood lol he's only 2

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Got quite a shock coming home from Brum on Sunday, at junction 8 of the M25 in Surrey the snow suddenly descended and it was interesting driving up the hilly roads around Caterham/Sanderstead way. My technique of revving like b-ggery in 2nd uphill seemed to work, albeit combined with a bit of opposite lock Roads were quiet by this time though so I felt it was safe enough to do so. Saw several abandoned vehicles, and all FWD!

Hmm, how on eath it is possible to get stuck with 4x4 in place where 300 series still manages to go? They probably forgot that there is actually stick/button that says 4WD HI/LO which will help quite a bit at snow, Subaru owners have certainly had fun there

This is a bit more like it, (taken this morning)

ell bit later than i suggested, but finaly got my car home yesterday, here are the pics and some randoms thrown in from my bike ride if thats cool!

Here is my car the day after i abandoned it.












My mate had found it before i got there!





Ice, ice baby











My local high street





lol





Hope you enjoyed and it's cool that they aren't all Volvo related?

Good photos

Cheers

Awesome pics dude.

Well done indeed.

I hope that lad wrote PAUL in warm kia ora.
Coz that snow didnt half taste funny.

I wish it'd been like that up here, instead of just rainy.

I went for a drive and saw.... yes a broken down royal mail van!! outside my house!
and some other random stuff : garden etc.









(my)Fwd chav-mobile in car park.





way home:







then a stop of at another shop..











That enough pics? lol all taken on a phone sorry!. had loads of traction for some reason..quite a nice drive..normally crap in the clio...last time it tried to kill me every slight bend..but no i had more traction than other people!? that were spinning around and getting stuck etc (might have something to do with my new front tyres-kingstar mega cheapies massive tread though!!)