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A lot of us are putting our cars into winter storage mode (first time my SoCal car will ever be down for this long). Share your pictures of your winter storage solutions! Here is mine:
Heated parking garage inside the city chamber of commerce:
Gets to sleep during the winter in my brothers ten car garage since I only have a single car garage lol and in Minnesota it's nice to have your daily driver in a warm garage when it's 20 below
918 here, mine stays indoors when it starts to get chilly, open headers and not willing to change it. Im in the middle of getting all my eggs in a basket to do a 6.0 swap and ill figure out how to run it to the tailshaft then. But till then i wrap her up with a nice cozy blanket and wisper sweet nothings to the side mirror. LOL
That last picture is such a bad *** shot haha. I love that shot on 3rd gens.
In the south subs of Chicago, and unfortunately I don't know if I'll be able to store my car this year going to try and have that conversation with my parents and see about getting a truck and a storage locker this year haha
Here are some pics. I'm located in Lincoln, Nebraska and the weather got real crappy real quick. She barley made it into storage in the nick of time. I bought my 1997 z28 back in December 2005 with 68,200 and now it has 75,587 on it.
Prior to storage I did the following:
Hand wash
Hand wax and buff
Interior all vacuumed
Carpet shampoo and all previous owner stains removed
All interior cleaned (windows, plastics, door jams, leather (conditioned) etc).
Had this professionally done for $85.00 this past Saturday.
A bit about the storage unit.
- 10ft wide, 9ft tall, 20ft deep
- 24 hour access
- Gated fence, security cameras, side manager, two looking system for the garage door.
**I got lucky my dad's friend owns this facility, these units this size run $115 per month, I was able to get it for $60 per month till the end of April. There were running a special with the first month free.
Things I did for prep of the unit
- Brushed out dirt
- Painters tarp for moisture
- 9ft x 12ft carpet under car
- 9 self adhesive LED push lights (no light in unit)
- Moth circles in the corners
- Dryer sheets in the corners of garage as well
- Decon food squares placed in each corner of the garage
- 2 damp rid containers in the car (center cup holder and then on the elevated section under the rear hatch)
- 2 dryers sheets in front, behind seat and in the rear bucket seat area of the inside of the car both driver and passenger side
- Seat cover on both the driver and passenger front seats.
- 3 "little trees" new car scent in the car.
- Let the battery slow charge for a few days and then high charged it before I took it to the detailer for a day (currently at 100% charge, will not removed from the car will just use the outlet on the outside of the garage door to run a battery charger to).
- All tires have max PSI of 44, I filled up all tires with 40 PSI.
All cleaned out!
Laying the tarp down
First tarp complete (9ft x 12ft)
Second tarp is laid down.
Taping down the second tarp
Both tarps are all laid down and secured with gorilla tape.
fresh from detailer!
Look at that shine! (strano front and back with bilsteins)
Stranos in the front!
Stored away without cover.
Best shine I've seen in a long long time!
No light no problem! 3 LED push lights per side. Carpet square taped to the support beam so the door can rest against it when open. Will do the same thing to the passenger side.
Here are some pics. I'm located in Lincoln, Nebraska and the weather got real crappy real quick. She barley made it into storage in the nick of time. I bought my 1997 z28 back in December 2005 with 68,200 and now it has 75,587 on it.
Prior to storage I did the following:
Hand wash
Hand wax and buff
Interior all vacuumed
Carpet shampoo and all previous owner stains removed
All interior cleaned (windows, plastics, door jams, leather (conditioned) etc).
Had this professionally done for $85.00 this past Saturday.
A bit about the storage unit.
- 10ft wide, 9ft tall, 20ft deep
- 24 hour access
- Gated fence, security cameras, side manager, two looking system for the garage door.
**I got lucky my dad's friend owns this facility, these units this size run $115 per month, I was able to get it for $60 per month till the end of April. There were running a special with the first month free.
Things I did for prep of the unit
- Brushed out dirt
- Painters tarp for moisture
- 9ft x 12ft carpet under car
- 9 self adhesive LED push lights (no light in unit)
- Moth circles in the corners
- Dryer sheets in the corners of garage as well
- Decon food squares placed in each corner of the garage
- 2 damp rid containers in the car (center cup holder and then on the elevated section under the rear hatch)
- 2 dryers sheets in front, behind seat and in the rear bucket seat area of the inside of the car both driver and passenger side
- Seat cover on both the driver and passenger front seats.
- 3 "little trees" new car scent in the car.
- Let the battery slow charge for a few days and then high charged it before I took it to the detailer for a day (currently at 100% charge, will not removed from the car will just use the outlet on the outside of the garage door to run a battery charger to).
- All tires have max PSI of 44, I filled up all tires with 40 PSI.
Laying the tarp down
First tarp complete (9ft x 12ft)
Second tarp is laid down.
Taping down the second tarp
Both tarps are all laid down and secured with gorilla tape.
fresh from detailer!
Look at that shine! (strano front and back with bilsteins)
Stranos in the front!
Stored away without cover.
Best shine I've seen in a long long time!
No light no problem! 3 LED push lights per side. Carpet square taped to the support beam so the door can rest against it when open. Will do the same thing to the passenger side.
Is it getting crappy down in Lincoln? It's still sort of ok here in Council bluffs, I mean I wouldn't drive my camaro, but I've seen a couple puttering around.
Love texas never store em drive em year round and they don't rust out unless you are on the coast.
I'm doing ok without my San Diego weather so far, but I figure come February when I have to walk past the Camaro and climb into my daily, it's going to be sad.
Yeah, they are for moisture, it's probably overkill, but I'm willing to spend a few extra bucks to make sure my rust free socal car stays rust free here in Iowa.
Mine will be positioned where the Rainier is in that picture here soon. Going to start ripping the interior out and get it ready for a cage install. Once that is done it will be time to clean a few things up in the engine bay. Other than that not much will be getting done to it this winter. One thing I like about living up North is that I don't feel bad when the car is down for upgrades as I wouldn't be driving it anyway.
I used to be **** about preparing my cars for the winter but not anymore. Only thing I may do is put my crappy stock wheels on the rear and put my Mickey's in the basement. The garage will be heated this winter but I would feel more comfortable with them inside.
My car isn't what I would call a show car by any means, but it is clean for having 135k on the body. I did drive it a couple of winters ago after swapping to a sligthly bigger turbo though. Couldn't resist the temptation to take it for a spin.
Yep the tarps are for moisture as my facility isn't climate controlled. I got the tarps for $5 each (9 X 12). The carpet my buddy works at Lowe's got me 6ft X 12ft for $4 that was a manufacture mess up (I have three sections 2ft X 12ft, I just duct tapped the sections together). Everything that was used to prep the garage (damp rid, moth *****, tarps, decon, carpet). Was $58 out the door at Lowe's, I wanted to kee the total under $60. The carpet under the tires help with flats during storage as well.
Washed it.
Cleaned and armor alled the interior.
Took out the rear seats for the first time ever to vacuum under them (13 years of nastiness) along with vacuuming the rest of the interior.
Put Stabil in the gas tank.
Hooked it to a battery tender.
Put the cover on it.
Cried that winter is coming...
11-02-2015, 08:56 PM
It's a dark time for Camaro owners everywhere.... 
going to try and have that conversation with my parents and see about getting a truck and a storage locker this year haha
