What would you do with this car?

[SteveMcQ]

I'll post pics of it later if I find 'em, but here's the deal:

My dad's looking to get a new car. He wants "something different" to replace the car he drives off and on now. So he's likely going to trade it in or sell it towards something, but I just love that car. So he offered to hold onto it for me, so long as I "take care of it".

Insurance and all of that he'll cover, so I'm guessing his idea of "taking care of it" would mean gas is on me. No big deal. But with winter here, it probably won't get much use coupled with the fact the garage won't fit any more cars. So, a really expensive car sitting out there in the winter isn't all too appealing, but it'd be such a waste of a perfectly good machine (it's only a year old, if that, btw...got it brand new). The garage is already filled up with cars, so I can't park it in there. And I, too, won't get much use of it since I have my own car.

But it's such a waste to just trade it in after a year. I can't bear to let him just do that. But it's very likely if I take this car now, I won't get dibs on whatever car he decides to get next.

Are there places that offer long-term (winter months) storage for cars at a reasonable price?

[SBWildBill2004]

there certianly is, ask around to any people you know with expensive cars and ask where they park is for the winter, i have my 98 mustang cobra converatable in a heated grarge all winter where i live, but sadly to say i think it will be going bye bye this spring (im thinkin a lancer evo would do me better) but yea, there are places to store it.

[kakomu]

Find an indoor storage unit place that you can drive your car into. When my mom's boyfriend moved in, they moved a lot of the excess junk into an indoor storage place that was climate controlled. The place was secure with security codes needed to enter and cameras and climate controlled. There were a couple of cars being storred in there, including a Lincoln Limo and a Grand National.

If you don't like that, take the car to a car wash to make sure it has a good wax job, and buy a cover for the car. Just leave it covered all season.

[RAMSTORIA]

oh man, what a sad dilema, take dads porshe now, or wait for his next new toy. pshaw! doenst sound like it makes much of a difference.

[SteveMcQ]

Ok, let's just say your family already owns a perfectly good, working car. Why get rid of it for another one? What would be your argument to keep that car instead of just trading it off?

I never thought of it, but I could park it in the barn and just put a cover on it, but it's not so much the storage that gets to me. It's the car sitting over the winter season. That can't be good for it even if I were to start it up every once in a while.

Thanks for confirming about the car storage though.

[alonzomourning23]

If it was me I'd sell it, by a hybrid and then go on vacation to vietnam, cuba (through canada), Iran, eqypt or sweden. If I could get my vietnamese friend to go to vietnam then I'd do that, problem is he can only speak it, he can't read any vietnamese.

I've also always wanted to visit transylvania as well. Oddly enough I had a professor who was from that area of romania, though I can't remember if he was from transylvania or near it.

Then again I'd never be in the position to waste that much on a car, and no one in my family is in the position to buy anything close to a porsche.

And "taking care of it" means more than gas, which you should know if you have had a car before. It means checkups, oil changes, maintenance, repairs etc. May also mean deductables and surcharges due to tickets, accidents etc.