I've always wondered this too. Why store them at all? Unless you've got
some trailer queen that never sees the road except on beautiful spring days,
just drive it a little during the winter! I understand if you live in a
place with perpetually salty roads but that's the only excuse.
I took my spit home from school over a month ago and it just sat until I got
home for Thanksgiving. Went over to the shop and it fired right up. Drove
it for a few days and now it's sitting till I get home again for X-mas.
just my 2 cents
Ryan Smith
72 Emerald Green Spitfire
>From: "Fred Thomas" <vafred@erols.com>
>Reply-To: "Fred Thomas" <vafred@erols.com>
>To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
>CC: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
>Subject: winter storage
>Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 20:34:49 -0500
>
>Just a few thoughts on storage, any idea how long it might be from assembly
>to the actual sale of a new car, could be over a year. How about a new
>engine, from assembly, to installation, to sale, could be 2 years, the same
>can apply to transmissions and rear ends. Large commercial trucks (over 2
>tons) are not actually manufactured by years, but, are titled in the year
>they are sold, so it could sit for as much as 3 to 4 years before being
>sold, yes these things happen. Have any idea how long that new car has been
>on the dealers back lot before you bought it ? Did you know import trucks
>do
>not come with a bed on them, big tax on imported trucks, but, they are not
>trucks unless they have a bed, so a much smaller tax. Know why a Dodge
>Caravan is classified as a truck and not a car, you got it, tax again. My
>point is, this talk of what should and should not be done when cold weather
>comes along is not all that important, especially only for the 3 to 4
>months
>most of us store them. "FT"
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