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Dry roads and no snow in Calgary, YAAHOO!

Good day for getting the TBird out of the garage and circulating all the fluids. Can't wait till winter is really over so I can car cruise and ride my motorbike. At one point, my son asked what the speed limit was and I replied I was somewhat over that. I should of stopped there but I may have mumbled something about its ok so long there were no cops around. Well leave it up to my kids to make a game of looking for our finest. Little Bonnie and Clyde's they were. (Mind you if I were sitting in an interceptor Crown Vic I'd probably like to test it out on such a fine day too). BAD DADDY!
87 Sport with HO cam, 19# injectors,TB+Upper Intake,87 Mustang EEC, Cloyes double roller timing chain, Kirban adj. fuel regulator and Autometer fuel pres. guage, HO shorty headers + LSC H-pipe and Dynomax Super Turbo lers, Ford Racing 9mm wires, K&N filter / no air resonator, 8.8 XR7 Diff., V rated tires, Project ongoing.

Dry roads and no snow in Calgary, YAAHOO!

Reply #1 –
Fire some of that heat out this way.  Its -28* right now.  I couldn't even start my car up cold if I tried.

I remember driving to Calgary last winter in mid February.  When I got there the cops (on motorcycles) had a radar trap set up at deerfoot and 16 Ave, since the weather was so nice.  In fact that night I think we were walking around Canmore in T-shirts!!  Funny how that Alberta weather is compared to predictable cold northern Manitoba.

Dry roads and no snow in Calgary, YAAHOO!

Reply #2 –
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I should of stopped there but I may have mumbled something about its ok so long there were no cops around.
And so it begins. Better start saving money for bail!
Death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.

1988 5.0 Bird, mostly stock, partly not, now gone to T-Bird heaven.
1990 Volvo 740GL. 114 tire-shredding horsies, baby!

Dry roads and no snow in Calgary, YAAHOO!

Reply #3 –
I lived in Calgary for 9 months (back in 1979) and can still remember the chinooks. I also remember that between the chinooks it was unimaginably cold :mad: My Nova Scotian ass wasn't ready for -40, no way no how.

It's been about -10 here for a few days and this is unseasonably cold - the 70 km/hr wind isn't helping, though. I think aside from coastal BC, Nova Scotia has the mildest and wettest winter climate in Canada. We usually do get lots of snow, though - except last year and this year. Last year we may have gotten 6" in total, this year we've gotten about 3" in total so far. Still enough to have salt on the road, though, so the T-Bird stays parked. The amazing thing is that only about 200 km to my east, in eastern NS and Cape Breton, there was a major blizzard Friday and Saturday - over a foot of snow and wind hitting 110km/hr. We didn't get so much as a snowflake :evilgrin:

The snowmobiles have been lonely though...
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

Dry roads and no snow in Calgary, YAAHOO!

Reply #4 –
This year has been good in Calgary...we had some harsh temps for a week in November but other than that it seems to be hovering around the freezing mark at worst. I actually took my bird out for a tour yesterday as well to shake off the cob webs.

Dry roads and no snow in Calgary, YAAHOO!

Reply #5 –
For the last 3 weeks we get an inch of snow on Sunday and then it gets down to about 10* that night. It sucks. We have salt all over the place.
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

Dry roads and no snow in Calgary, YAAHOO!

Reply #6 –
Its 15 degrees outside right now and I am about to turn the space heater on and climb into the heated water bed and turn the electric blanket on.  All winter long we have had no snow then all of a sudden this week the ground has been white and in total 6 or 7 inches has fallen here, and its snowing right now.  And I'm going to bed, only to wait it out until spring.
One 88
 

Dry roads and no snow in Calgary, YAAHOO!

Reply #7 –
Got the bike out today! But as it was pointed out, this Chinook (warm winds weather phenomenon) can easily swing around to -40 c (close to -40 f), though that has been rare in the past few years. My response is its all in the humidity, I'd rather take a -17 c (0 f) in dry Calgary than a -5 c (22 f) in humid east as I was accustomed to in Montreal. As for needing bail money in the future, I hope all the other efforts I put into proper upbringing will offset this moment of foolish exuberance.LOL
87 Sport with HO cam, 19# injectors,TB+Upper Intake,87 Mustang EEC, Cloyes double roller timing chain, Kirban adj. fuel regulator and Autometer fuel pres. guage, HO shorty headers + LSC H-pipe and Dynomax Super Turbo lers, Ford Racing 9mm wires, K&N filter / no air resonator, 8.8 XR7 Diff., V rated tires, Project ongoing.