Reply to "Snow Cats"

Thanks guys,

I do need to say that I don't intentionally try to use the Pantera as a snow plow but I also know that they don't melt if you get them wet. New Mexico is so dry that if I get into some weather, I enjoy it!

My nephew commented on the heater in the Pantera as "awesome" but then you don't really have that much area to heat up! No problems at all with the defroster but as you probably know you can turn the air conditioner on and open your heater valve to warm the air and it will defrost the windows in no time flat.

There were no handling issues since Hesston drove carefully (read white knuckled) when the roads were snow covered. In another drive that my wife and I took to Vermont, we encountered some snow and found out the Pantera can swap ends in a heartbeat (I reminded Hesston of that fact). A photo of that trip to Vermont in the snow made it on the cover of PI back in the Winter 1994 issue (number 81).

The only "problems" we encountered in Colorado were trying to get the Pantera to start in the mornings after being left outside in the hotel parking lots when the temperatures were WAY below freezing at night.

I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.