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Subject: Re: Putting cars in storage
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 21:55:00 EST
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**  qwerty, or, the first six letters on my keyboard  **

There are amny things you might want to do to store a car for a year,
depending on how picky you are and how much the car is worth.  For your
basic car, here's what I'd do:

Find yourself a nice dry place to store it.

Fill the tank with gas.

Change the oil.

Flush the radiator and put in fresh antifreeze, even if you live in a warm
part of the country (antifreeze has rust inhibitors).

Jack the car up onto blocks or jackstands.

Disconnect the battery and remove it.  Put it on a trickle charger if one
is available.

Open the windows just a crack.

Cover the car with a car cover or other light cloth covering.

That should do it for a year.  Again, there are lots of additional things
you may want to do if the car is really valuable, like squirting some oil
in each of the cylinders or greasing up the chrome, but stuff like this
obligates you to spending some time getting the thing running again.  For
a year for a regular car, these should do the trick.

R.M. Mottola
Cyborg Corp.
Newton, MA.