RE: Midwest members
Ashtabula, Ohio here (far Northeast corner of Ohio). Right smack dab in the middle of the rust belt. Lake effect snow and all of that crap.
I picked up my Challenger on Dec.22, 2008 in Warren, MI (just North of Detroit). Trailered the car home in an enclosed trailer in the worst winter conditions I've seen in a few years. Snowing and blowing at my end of the route (both going out and coming home), and black ice all over Detroit. It was a white knuckler with the new car in the trailer, but made it home without incident.
I backed my baby off the trailer and into the garage. Never got a spec of snow on the tires. I have not yet driven my car. It still shows "6" miles on the odometer. It is sitting in the garage under a car cover waiting for spring to arrive.
If life goes according to plan, I will be living in North Carolina by 2019. Only ten more winters.