How I survived a blizzard in a Corvette Z06 on summer tires
Yes, that was me, two weeks ago in the snowbound mess on I-75 in Kentucky. Let me explain. One of the most-read pieces on Autoblog last year involved taking a Corvette places it probably shouldn't have been after a blizzard in the shadow of Mt. St. Helens. As we posited in the headline for the Chevrolet Corvette Convertible Road Test Review , "Mountain road after a blizzard. What could go wrong?" I did not have that piece in mind when I recently ended up stuck on the highway. But if I had had, my review would be titled, " 2001 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Road Test Review | Frozen highway during a snowstorm. Everything went wrong (until it went right)." It started just before New Year's, when I decided to make a quick trip to Florida to visit a friend from my home near Cincinnati. The weather the day I left wasn't merely unseasonable, it was an absurd 71 degrees. Looking at the 10-day report, forecasters didn't predict anything even approaching the u