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RacerX

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This would be an example of the typical socal, back yard LSR build in the mid 60s, a retired altered chassis, a 34 ford 3 window coup and a balls out blown Boss motor. The salt on the tires is super glue and powdered sugar.
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Dunno if you noticed, the pavement looks like the salt flats!
It didnt really dawn on me it looks like concrete n so fla, really white from the use of alot of lime rock in it and the street pavement gos white after a wile to cause of more stone use in it to keep the tar from melting in the heat. Is that snow and ice or salt.? I live in NC now it snows maybe one or two times a year, our salt is pissed out the truck in 8 streams in a watery solution that dont do jack if it snows more than an inch.:rolleyes:
 
Salt. When conditions are just right, the salt whips off the pavement on the thruway (with cars at speed) in clouds you can see!
According to Mr. Googles:
The city of Ottawa uses a high volume of road salt to manage ice and snow, averaging about 156,000 metric tonnes each winter, and has been identified as the Canadian leader in road salt use. The city applies a mix of standard rock salt (halite), calcium chloride (which melts at lower temperatures), and liquid de-icers to maintain safe road conditions.
Yup, 171, 960.6 tons in US units.
 
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Salt. When conditions are just right, the salt whips off the pavement on the thruway (with cars at speed) in clouds you can see!
According to Mr. Googles:

Yup, 171, 960.6 tons in US units.
Thats nasty, it means the cars are not just driving through it they are breathing it to. Corrosion inside and out. The air in Fla was a problem year round, i had to polish the aluminum parts on my Harley every two weeks from the salt in the air. Here in NC i do it maybe twice a year now.
 
Nice touch.

Now that snow is back on the ground around here, it brings to mind how our cars look midwinter, with all of the salt that goes onto the roads...

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Typical, random car in a parking lot last winter.
How timely! Just on my way home from getting the car treated at Krown Rust Chek. Of course it's snowing and slippery on the roads.
On the plus side, the dog loves the snow!
 

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