wrenching on your car in crappy weather

On my home back from college from Detroit one winter, I broke a water pump in my Barracuda. the nose fractured off of the pump and bent the pulley and put the fan into the radiator.

I pulled it over at a gas station at the next exit (I was almost to Battle Creek). I got a ride back to school and then called my dad and told him where to find me some spare parts at home to fix my car (spare radiator, fan, pulley, and water pump. He also brought the pants from my snowmobiling suit.

A few days later I had Someone gave me a ride back to my broken down car. And dad came from Chicago and brought all the parts. I worked on my car in the parking lot of the gas station in the parking lot in 20°F. I had to take a couple of breaks now and then to warm up, but was able to change the damaged parts and get my car back running again.