Outside Storage Ideas

[wirenut]

I have a 68 Dart that has been stored indoors for 20 years or so, I have lost storage and dont want to keep it in my work space. So I was thinking about storing outside on a gravel parking area, with heavy mill plastic over the gravel and a water proof breathable cover. I dont want a hoop house. Anybody see a problem with the way I want to do it? Hopefully it will only be for a year or so.:dontknow:

 

[pettybludart]

This was my cheapest storage idea,don,t know if this is a...hoop house??I,m just storing my car in this so I have full access in my garage for working on my other car.Good Luck!

 

[turbodart68]

I have put my cars outside as well. I live in Southern California and the climate is mild but I am close to the beach so things do rot here pretty fast. So what I do is put the car on concrete (thats pretty much my only option) and cover the car with a good quality cover then cover the car with multiple blue tarps. I use really thick and good quality tarps for longevity reasons. I bungee chord them to the car to keep the tarps in place. It works nice for me. Good luck.

 

[briankaplan]

I'm storing my latest. The Volare wagon on the car trailer this winter.
Covered it with a heavy trap and tied it down tight to keep it from rubbing
the paint in high winds. i also put cheap dryer sheets everywhere to keep the
animals out of it. Good luck.

 

[RedFish]

poly defeats the purpose of a breathable cover. Those blue tarps get eat up by the suns uv rays. One day its a tarp and the next day its a mess of little fibers scattered everywhere. The cheaper car covers wont stand up to the sun either. Buy a high quality cover if you buy one and put the car up on 4 of the tallest jack stands you can find. I use scaffold stands (18 inches tall ) with a 4 inch length of 5 inch channel welded on the top. Frame rails sit in them perfectly. Mind you it does take a bit of work to geter jacked up that high but worth the effort. Like they say "high and dry".