Storage
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 4:00 pm
Well, it's official. I am moving to Taipei, Taiwan. I'm presently in San Diego doing briefings before leaving probably the week of either 1 July or 23 June.
The cars are being stored, among other things. For a lot of reasons we can't bring them in country (which are roughly the same reasons you can't just bring an R34 GTR into the US).
My contract is through the end of 2009. I may not be there that long, but I am damn near sure I will be there at least six months.
The cars (82 280ZX, 06 STI) need to be stored. I just got off the phone with the place that we were going to use to store the cars and they said that first off they will not store cars on jackstands, that they must have the keys to the ignition, and that they "take them out and drive them every once in a while" (ostensibly to keep them running). Since I don't know these people, I'm not a big fan of that.
I had a big concern for the Subaru, in that I didn't want to leave the tank full of gasoline, because gas goes bad. Turns out, the Subaru (this according to Don Beyer) has a plastic gas tank and it's not going to rust anyways. So I can store it empty or mostly empty.
But it's the sitting that's going to kill the struts/springs/tires.
I am less concerned with the Z because it is already needing chassis work and new suspension (the Tokicos sat for six years and are just shot). I'd be happy just to keep it somewhere covered.
With the Subaru I need to keep it somewhere on jack stands, out of the weather, and hopefully with room to store four of my wheels (with the Falken Azenis on them, if somebody wants to make me a deal on these, I may consider it - they have less than 1000 miles on them).
Does anyone have any suggestions? I figure there are guys that have a lot of cars that have to keep them stored somewhere. Guys that have corvettes, not just some military guy who deployed and needs to park his Jeep. Somewhere, there's a storage facility that understands sports cars and has room for two more. Anyone know where it is?
Also, if you think you might be interested in parking my car in your garage, there's $100/mo per car in it. The Z could be parked outside, but would need to be kept dry and covered. I can order a cover from Motorsport Auto that fits the 280ZX poifectly.
anyways, long post, but this really hurts. we don't want to sell the car (although we're not upside down), and we're really going to miss it over there. I'm real bummed I can't work on the Z this summer. Help a brother out. Please.
The cars are being stored, among other things. For a lot of reasons we can't bring them in country (which are roughly the same reasons you can't just bring an R34 GTR into the US).
My contract is through the end of 2009. I may not be there that long, but I am damn near sure I will be there at least six months.
The cars (82 280ZX, 06 STI) need to be stored. I just got off the phone with the place that we were going to use to store the cars and they said that first off they will not store cars on jackstands, that they must have the keys to the ignition, and that they "take them out and drive them every once in a while" (ostensibly to keep them running). Since I don't know these people, I'm not a big fan of that.
I had a big concern for the Subaru, in that I didn't want to leave the tank full of gasoline, because gas goes bad. Turns out, the Subaru (this according to Don Beyer) has a plastic gas tank and it's not going to rust anyways. So I can store it empty or mostly empty.
But it's the sitting that's going to kill the struts/springs/tires.
I am less concerned with the Z because it is already needing chassis work and new suspension (the Tokicos sat for six years and are just shot). I'd be happy just to keep it somewhere covered.
With the Subaru I need to keep it somewhere on jack stands, out of the weather, and hopefully with room to store four of my wheels (with the Falken Azenis on them, if somebody wants to make me a deal on these, I may consider it - they have less than 1000 miles on them).
Does anyone have any suggestions? I figure there are guys that have a lot of cars that have to keep them stored somewhere. Guys that have corvettes, not just some military guy who deployed and needs to park his Jeep. Somewhere, there's a storage facility that understands sports cars and has room for two more. Anyone know where it is?
Also, if you think you might be interested in parking my car in your garage, there's $100/mo per car in it. The Z could be parked outside, but would need to be kept dry and covered. I can order a cover from Motorsport Auto that fits the 280ZX poifectly.
anyways, long post, but this really hurts. we don't want to sell the car (although we're not upside down), and we're really going to miss it over there. I'm real bummed I can't work on the Z this summer. Help a brother out. Please.