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Winter Storage

My car stays inside our heated cement-floor barn all winter, without insurance.  Anyone else store their car over the cold months?  I'm getting insurance back on my 'Bird today.

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Reply #1
this will be the last year it sits outside. i just keep it cleaned off and move it around. i dont drive it. it never sees a salt road....
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Reply #2
Quote from: kewlbird08
My car stays inside our heated cement-floor barn all winter, without insurance.  Anyone else store their car over the cold months?  I'm getting insurance back on my 'Bird today.


Yep. Unheated oversized double garage. The problem is, I parked it for the winter a year and a half ago. :(

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Reply #3
The cougar has been "sitting pretty" in a boat storage shed this winter with the interior half ripped out. Actually, it's not that pretty, lol!

She also developed a strange problem with the brakes. I got it out last month to drive it and I couldn't stop it (which is usually a bad thing). So I need to look into that.

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Reply #4
Yea, that's probably not a good thing.

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Reply #5
Yep...mine's been sitting on a patch of concrete, on jackstands, with a car cover & tarp over it since mid-October. I'm planning on getting it back out here in a couple weeks so I can start working on it.

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Reply #6
the po of my car had it in winter storage for 7 years. im sure glad the ended up needing thae space in their garrags cause now i own the bird.

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Reply #7
This will be the last winter my 'Bird stays outside. I usually take the PL/PD insurance off and leave the comprehensive on, but this year, when the Volvo engine blew, I left insurance on it and hadn't bothered removing it.
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Reply #8
Mine's in our garage next to our bayliner rec. boat.

She's warm, I fire her up every so often to keep her happy.

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Reply #9
Quote from: Cougarcruisin
She's warm, I fire her up every so often to keep her happy.


Funny, I do that very same thing with my girlfriend every-now-and-then! lol

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Reply #10
both my XR-7's and SC are sitting in the back yard under 2' of snow,so they are kinda stored untill may.

 

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Reply #11
bought of mine are in garages 600 miles apart, bought are in pieces as well. though i will be driving the TC... rain, snow, or shine.
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Reply #12
Daily Driver here.  Rain, Snow, Salt and Mud, you name it, she plows through.
One 88

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Reply #13
See sig. Zephyr's covered though.
1980 birds X 3, 1982 bird, 1984 XR7, 1988 TC

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Reply #14
Mine's a block away in my grandparents garage under a cover and sitting with old steel wheels on it (I stack the tires I drive on in the summer like pancakes to keep them from getting flat spots). I go over and start it up once a week for 15 minutes or so just to keep the engine in good shape. I can't wait till April 1st when i can take it out again. Some how driving my '93 Buick Century isn't the same :rolleyes: .
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