Weather-sensitive - the classic car in winter
11/02/2012
Drivers of vintage cars are more exposed to (winter) weather conditions than drivers of modern cars. This is of course true for open-top vehicles, but it also applies to the closed cars of the past.
In those days, heating systems, if they were offered at all, were a far cry from today's effectiveness. You had to drive quite a long way in a Beetle before it started to warm up inside. The cold/heat insulation of old cars cannot be compared with today's standards. Even the heat distribution in earlier cars was comparatively rudimentary, with no trace of air vents for the rear seats or individually distributable warm air flows. Accessories such as seat heaters, rear-view mirror defrosters and the like had not even been invented 50 or more years ago and were still not widespread years later.
But this is not the only reason why the classic car season came to an early (and temporary) end on the last weekend, which was characterized by snow and ice in many places, but also because most classic car owners do not want to expose their treasures to snow, salt and sub-zero temperatures.
We recently published an article on how to "winterize" your car . However, the pictures shown here show that winter weather conditions and beautiful old cars can certainly give rise to attractive photos.
