A-Bodies in the snow?

I drove my 69 Dart for 2 winters in South Bend, IN decades ago, which gets dumped on by "lake effect" snow, much more than Brooklyn. I recall the rear tires spinning just once at an icy stop sign. I never used snow tires and they didn't even plow the gravel road we lived on. They salted the roads, which made new cars rust out underneath in 5 years, and accounted for some of the rust on my Dart. I recall more problems on roads in the Southeast since you get more ice there.