Car looks quite nice, John! Def. sounds like your thermostat needed a wake up call!
Oh, and how was the family get together in Newport this week Al? (Pamp)
Way back in time when I was a tech at a BMW Porsche dealer in VT we had numerous customers that drove CS Coupes in the snow, year round, through VT mud season, on gravel roads, with roof racks and skis . . 4 steel wheels and Michelin X snows with studded tires . .
Perhaps even further back in time Mario, around the mid-seventies this California lad who always spent summers in Laguna or Newport decided to rough it and I spent over a year traveling the US (The NY the World Trade was only half constructed) in my el Camino (camper) and ended up deeply in love (still a mystery!) in White Bear Minnesota (outside of St. Paul)
I did mangage to get a job at Kline Volvo and Oldsmobile South of Minneapolis as their lot guy, tech trainee and part time Jaguar mechanic, as the owner loved them and as you all know they often need repair and maintenace.
My first day going to work should have told me of the winter to come...wet hair from the shower froze solid before I could run the 100 yards to the car and surprisingly the lot guys vehicle turned out to be a P1800 Wagon like the one pictured above.
There were times I used that (w/4 cyl. tractor motor Volvo decided on for power) car to push the small plow between the rows of new cars which were constantly buried in five feet of snow and it not only performed well it was also warm and cozy to operate in forty to fifty below temperatures.
Main lesson? I acquired (and there's always a lesson) the secret of keeping going...it had to do with something California folks never think about, which is adding the "HEAT" additive to the gasoline so that in the cold it doesn't crystalize and block the fuel flow as being stranded in Wisconsin on the way to Chicago is NOT the place one wishes to test out the cold weather survival gear!
Cheers!
Ran
Rust never sleeps! 
