# Drive the car in the winter? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [October 15, 2006, 8:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drive-the-car-in-the-winter/18855 "2006-10-15T08:10:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 44
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drive-the-car-in-the-winter/18855/44 "2006-10-18T14:34:40Z")
> [@vq30de](#): > > You can drive anything in the winter. You could probably drive an all out race car and be semi ok. The question is do you want to. HRKs post is the most sensical. Your $$$ shit is gonna get F’d up. Salt\>Cars :shrug: I drove my hotrod lincoln thru the winter and you could eat off the motor/underside of the car… it’s all in how well you take care of it. If you don’t wash it regularly and thuroughly (atleast when there is alot of salt out) then you’re bound to run into problems. the only reasons why I wouldnt drive a car in the winter would be that it was too powerful, if it was vintage/worth alot of $$$, I planned on doing a full resto to it and/or keeping it for a very long time here’s a pic of the motor right before I got rid of it… was driven thru snow most of it’s life (and it was a 93 keep in mind). I constantly had people dropping their jaws when I would say that --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drive-the-car-in-the-winter/18855)._