[Lucky]

Originally Posted by Mike W

So which is the prefered method? I can do either.

This provided interesting info but I'm storing for longer than a season http://www.porschenet.com/winter.html

Flip a coin. Both approaches are viable. I'm in the lack-of-use-ruins-engines camp, so I would go the start it regularly route. But when prepared properly for storage, an engine is just fine after 6 months or more of no use.

I own a couple of boats and go through a Winter storage procedure (similar to what DR and that link describe) at the end of the season and have never had any issues come Spring. But I can't run the boats over the Winter. Cars, on the other hand, can be started and driven on nice weather days... so I prefer that.

[Cliff Claven]

since it's better to store the car with new oil as opposed to used oil, seems to make more sense that you don't want to keep starting it up, running the motor and turning the new oil into used oil.

[Dr K]

Originally Posted by Mike W

Ugh, only $40 a month. I'm going to be paying $180 a month to park the Saab... and that's only b/c I'm a resident of the building. It would be closer to $400 if I wasn't.

Is that in Manhattan??? Even $400/month would be a steal!

[Elfer]

I think you should sell it to me at a reasonable price and then buy it back when you get out of school.

[Lupin..the..3rd]

An old racer's trick I once heard, is to put peanut butter in the airbox, and also in the trunk near the fuses. Helps prevent chemical breakdown and oxidation. Or something like that.

[Fritz]

Originally Posted by Lupin..the..3rd

An old racer's trick I once heard, is to put peanut butter in the airbox, and also in the trunk near the fuses. Helps prevent chemical breakdown and oxidation. Or something like that.

That sounds like a call to all varmints to make your air box their home. The peanut butter on the fuses will teach them a nice lesson in electrocution when they need a snack.

[Rick V]

Well Mike the 71 is leaving tonight so it just happens that I have an enclosed storage with nothing in it. I could keep your car running for ya. I promise to be nice to it.

[Mike W]

Originally Posted by Dr K

Is that in Manhattan??? Even $400/month would be a steal!

Right across the river in Jersey City. I've a fantastic view of mid-town. I'll be in Manhattan in 10 minutes via Path or Holland Tunnel (w/o taffic or train delay obviously).

Originally Posted by Elfer

I think you should sell it to me at a reasonable price and then buy it back when you get out of school.

Originally Posted by Rick V

Well Mike the 71 is leaving tonight so it just happens that I have an enclosed storage with nothing in it. I could keep your car running for ya. I promise to be nice to it.

See, this is why I love this board... numerous selfless offers just pop right up

[Dr K]

Jersey City has really come a long way. I stayed there last fall.

Peter

[Mike W]

Well the verdict was that I am keeping the car registered for the road and will have my father drive it while I am not around... which will be most of the time.

The big reason for this decision is that my insurance company came back with the verdict that the difference in cost between full coverage and storage coverage was $120.00 a year. That's it. So add registration fees and personal property and it isn't a huge sum of money.... not so much that it's worth the bother of the car sitting.