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In the arctic, most of us used an oil pan warmer that we plugged in at night or when parked. My little Honda had a block heater, inline coolant heater, battery blanket and oil pan element. Never failed to start even in -60.
When out of town, you couldn't plug in, so we'd either leave the car running or put a flare-pot under the oil pan to keep the oil from solidifying.
One night, while in Fort McPherson, this "northern newbie" put a flarepot under his car with a fibreglass oil pan. POOF! We all got nice and toasty standing around his "inferno-car."
Back in about 1982, Porsche brought a bunch of cars up the Alaska highway, cold weather testing. It was one durn cold time, with about -50 to -55. They left the cars sitting outside their hotel, and in the morning, all of them were frozen solid. They had to be towed to a garage and thawed.
The guys driving the 911's looked VERY envious at the driver of the 928, with his liquid cooled car and it's heater core. I think the 911 guys were some of the few that were colder inside their cars than me in my Civic!
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