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So I just picked up my slightly used, but very well cared for '99 Silver/Black ///M Coupe today (yesterday actually).
Flew to Portland with a friend at 7:30am. Now i need to drive it back to San Francisco, a measly 650 miles via I5. I get the car, and all it's goodies, hit the road at 2:30ish pm. Rain was VERY strong, WIND was strong, and I hit snow. Man, I have to say that I was a little scared for a while. The snow was getting worse and worse, and there was not way for us to turn around. I have driven a lot of cars in the snow, but all of them were front wheel drive, and they didn't have BFG Gforce's on them. We ended up going about 10-12 mph for a LONG ways following someone in a truck with chains on. Got a little hairy at times, especially when they wanted to stop, ABS works, but if the tires can't slow the car down then there aint much you can do.
I never had any intention of taking the coupe in the snow. I am never going to let it see that white fluffy devil spawned H2O again! If I wasn't such an idiot I would have realized that there was a chance of snow on the I5 route.
To you east coasters it probably would have been no big deal, but coming from SF you really don't get much experience driving cars in the snow, and if yo do then it is where they require chains at the first site of the stuff.
Oh yeah, by the way. We got in about 12 hours after we started. Man my butt hurts.
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