Re: [Spits] Car Covers

[Joe Curry]

I am assuming that you are expecting to cover the car to keep the rain and
other sorts of precipitation off the car.  If that is your intention, I
think it is a fool's errand.  Most car covers are designed to keep the sun
and dust off and are porous so that moisture goes through them.

Covering a car with a non-porous cover will trap moisture under the cover
and encourage rust.

There is no substitute for a good garage or carport to keep moisture off a
car.  

But if you are really just wanting something to keep the sun off, I have
found the ones from Moss work pretty well.  I have 2 of them and have been
very happy with both of them.

Joe

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Milkevitch
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 3:24 PM
To: Spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: [Spits] Car Covers

Hello Listers:
   
  I hope everyone had the chance to enjoy their cars today.  The weather
here in the Philadelphia PA area has been very nice today.
   
  I am currently contemplating purchasing another car cover for my Spitfire,
since the car has to live outside.  I've had several covers for this car,
and all have fallen apart within 1 year.  Has anyone has better success with
a car cover?  If so, what brand did you purchase?
   
  Thanks for your help
   
  Matt Milkevitch
  '77 Spitfire
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Re: [Spits] Car Covers

[Jim Muller]

On 15 Sep 2007 at 15:24, Matthew Milkevitch wrote:

 Has anyone has better success with a car
 cover?  If so, what brand did you purchase?

When I bought my GT6 some years ago I had to move the Spitfire out 
the garage and store it in the driveway.  So I bought a cover from 
California Car Cover, their spiffy ultra-high-tech super-fabric.  It 
was listed as waterproof but porous, and blocked UV.  Even better, 
when I called to ask the guy on the phone said it would fold up and 
fit in a shoebox.  It turned out to be everything they said it would 
be.  It kept the car dry and clean.  It fit both the Spitfire and GT6 
even though I chose one spec'ed for the GT6.  It lasted four or five 
years too.  Eventually it succumbed to UV so I replaced it with a 
cover from TRF.  That one, made by Covercraft or something similar, 
has been a disappointment.  It is thick and bulky, doesn't seem to 
keep out either dust or water, collects water inside the folds at the 
bottom (which would seem to encourage rust), and doesn't fit very 
well.  It builds up static charge so readily that I grew leary of 
putting it on or off the car.  I've had it maybe two years, but for 
the last six months it has been sitting in a folded heap at the head 
of the driveway.  If the car is going to get wet anyway I'd rather 
let the rain roll off and evaporate than be collected into an 
artificial puddle right underneath each bumper.  Maybe I'll clean it 
and put it back on the car for the winter.  But I intend to replace 
it soon with another high-tech one from California Car Cover, either 
this winter or next spring.

-- 
Jim Muller
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'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+



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