Indoors or outdoors Rover?

WarrenL

WarrenL

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Due to the ongoing repair of earthquake damage to our house, Brown Rover is having to spend a couple of nights outside on the driveway. This distresses me greatly, however I am aware that the internal access garage is not as common feature of UK homes as it is here in NZ, and not all Rovers lead such a cossetted life as Brown Rover. It'd be interesting to get a sense of proportion, so whose car is safely garaged, warm and dry, and whose has to tough it out on the street or driveway?
 
driveway for me, garage isnt big enough to be used as a workshop and storage for the rover... plus there is a mini in there! car lives on the drive under a cover during the winter months
 
Now I am down to 2 cars it lives in the garage under the TR6!
For the best part of 14yrs its been on the driveway,with the odd spell in the garage,but at least I have a decent size carport thats protected it from most of the bad weather!
 
ARJ lives in a garage now but was an outside car before my ownership and smelt like wet dog for the first year till she dried out.
 
I count myself as one of the lucky ones. Not only is the garage big enough for Rover and her older sister, (a 1936 Morris Eight Tourer), but I also have internal access :p

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Her sister is taking up most of my time at the moment, with an engine overhaul :shock:
 
Sparky lives in a nice warm garage, unless he's in Dorset when he is outside in the elements.

He doesn't go to Dorset much :)

Richard
 
Driveway for me too... Although I'm having an interesting time at the moment tracing all the ways that the rain can go through all the drain channels. Unblocked several which I've uncovered during the last fortnight when I've had the panels off to do a small repair section on the sills and thoroughly inspect everywhere else. Been 4 years since I last looked under the skin, so operation undershield commences again!
Bearing in mind I use mine on salted roads all through the year, and it's lucky if it gets a proper wash quarterly, I want to be vigilant. For your average sunday queen, it's always going to be less of an issue.
 
My Rover has lived indoors since 1987 in my care except for about 5 days last year when it needed the petrol pump recond, prior ownership I don't really know.

Graeme
 
codekiddie said:
I count myself as one of the lucky ones. Not only is the garage big enough for Rover and her older sister, (a 1936 Morris Eight Tourer), but I also have internal access :p

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Her sister is taking up most of my time at the moment, with an engine overhaul :shock:
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What a wonderful sight! and one I am too am hoping to replicate shortly, but more on that later no point to queer the pitch by before a deal is made.

Graeme
 
Mine is in my garage/workshop now, but was in storage since 1996 until I built the garage. Now, she is buried under "stuff" that has been migrated out of the house as a result of 'er Indoors' various clearups..... Now, I am about to embark on my own clear-out which means a lot of it will be relocated indoors for a while before oozing back into the garage.....
 
My car is a big woos , it has its own little air cell inside the shed .
 

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One inside and one outside at the moment, but you've all seen the new house so both will be inside from sometime next month. We've been renting for the last 6 years since I came out of the RAF and my V8 lived on the street for 2 years until we got a house with double garage. We moved to our current house 2 years ago and had 2 single garages, one of concrete pre-fab construction and the other a simple wooden lock-up. The wooden lock-up was rendered unsafe after extremely high winds a couple of months ago so Lady C has been outside on the drive since then. Like Michael, my car gets driven on salty roads through the winter. Unlike Michael, I wash mine every weekend. :D

Dave
 
Mine lived outside all of the time for the first 18 months of my ownership. However, it now either lives in a garage or carport, when I'm not using it as much, generally during the winter, when I'm at uni, and can only use it at weekends. During the summer, it does live outside a lot of the time. I don't like leaving it coated in salt when it's not in use, so I always like to make sure it's clean when it's put away.
I wish I had a garage outside the house to keep it in, however, that is occupied by a Triumph product. :shock:
 
Mine lives on the drive. Only room for one in the garage (plus bike) so the P4, being twenty years older, takes precedence. Planning a car port some time this year.
 
I share a garage with a few mates about a mile and a half from where I live, so my car is mostly garaged. That said, sometimes I really don't want to walk back home after, say, a night out, and so sometimes I street park. Not easy getting a parking spot after 4 in the afternoon where I live, and as a punk response to 'gentrification' there was a spate of car burnings around here in the last few years. My girlfriend says I'm crazy, and that the new paintwork will only get keyed, but I like to see my car gleaming amongst all the ugly plasticy moderns, and I like to wake up the neighbours now and then with the rumble of a proper motor! Seems to be a magnet for bird shit when I've just cleaned her though.
I'm all for driving 'em regularly, and not treating them with kid gloves. Treat 'em mean but keep 'em clean!
 
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