All Things Ski Cars

[Bad Bob]

1st car I owned, High School in Colorado Springs. Heater, Barely. Defroster, a scraper inside. Don't remember ever getting it stuck in the snow, and it saw a lot of it. All of thefun factor I could afford.

 

[Ken_R]

The old and the new...

 

[Dave Petersen]

1st car I owned, High School in Colorado Springs. Heater, Barely. Defroster, a scraper inside. Don't remember ever getting it stuck in the snow, and it saw a lot of it. All of thefun factor I could afford.
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My Dad owned an auto body shop for probably 40 years, and I would work there in the summer. Once they had an MG Midget in the shop and at 6'3" I wasn't even close being able to fit in the drivers seat.

 

[slowrider]

Doesn't matter what you drive when you wake up to this.

 

[Dave Petersen]

SKIING Feb 1975

 

[Dave Petersen]

Lamborghini Aventador

 

[Dave Petersen]

1957

 

[Dave Petersen]

Ferrari 330 GT 2+2 (Michelotti), 1965

Opel

Pinterest photos

 

[Don in Morrison]

It is funny that in the 60s and 70s a car made a good ski vehicle if it had a hatchback, had front wheel drive, or you could attach a ski rack to it. What about ground clearance so you don't get bogged down in the snow??

My '73 Chevelle was terrific on slick roads, even with the torqued up motor, as long as I had studded tires and the snow depth was less than the ground clearance. If the snow depth was ground clearance plus one inch, I had a beached whale on my hands. So then I bought the Jimmy and drove it for skiing and off-roading and used the Chevelle the rest of the time.

 

[slowrider]

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Lamborghini Aventador

I've got skis that look almost that fast.

 

[Dave Petersen]

SKIING Sep 1974

 

[Dave Petersen]

SKIING Dec 1976

 

[Dave Petersen]

 

[Dave Petersen]

I'm trying to figure out what the guy in the corner is doing...praying?...blowing his nose?

 

[Franzz]

The Wong and only "Wayne Wong"

 

[Dave Petersen]

Pinterest photo

 

[Don in Morrison]

The people in the cars seem oblivious to what's going on overhead.

 

[Uncle-A]

Pinterest photo
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Do you see how those skis are?

 

[Dave Petersen]

Do you see how those skis are?

They are lonnngggg!

 

[Don in Morrison]

They are lonnngggg!

220-ish, I'd guess.