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Took the winter tires off on Wednesday![]()
A while ago (four whole decades 🙁) I had a new Audi bought in the spring. Just after the first decent snowfall my boss, Chairman of our UK parent company, was in town and I was expected to meet him for brunch on Sunday morning. We had known each other a few years in a previous business and had a pretty similar attitude to entertaining the boss [No thank you, I have my own plans...].
So I ask if he has plans for the day. Apparently not and asks what I would be doing if he wasn't in town. Well I'd have been taking the Audi to the parking lot of our re-sellers which I knew would have been plowed and also deserted (because I was one of the few people who worked weekends there). Throw the car around a bit and then decide if I needed to get winter tyres for it.
OK, he'll come along.
Well it seems fine on the tyres it has. Borne out when taking it to ice-races on frozen lakes in New Hampshire over the next couple of years.
Then on my next visit to UK headquarters his Lancia Beta has gone and an Audi Coupe like mine is there instead 👍