Re: have to give up garage spot to fiancee - ouch!- parking a 740i with or without a cover?!

["Allan Williams" <allanw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe you could build a cheap "carport" in front of your garage?

I'm putting one on the side of our 2-car garage because it already had 3
cars *in* it. Plywood roof, wooden beams on the side. Ours doubles as a
covered outside living area, because it is on the edge of a courtyard, and
looks down over the back garden. I won't protect from all the elements, but
it will stop stuff which comes down.

Just something you "may"be able to look into.


Allan :-)
http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/9040/
"Use the forks, Luke"
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- ----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Robinson <stever@domain.elided>
To: BMW Digest <bmw-digest@domain.elided>; BMW 7 Digest
<bmw-7-series-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 5:38 AM
Subject: have to give up garage spot to fiancee - ouch!- parking a 740i with
or without a cover?!


> Well, the fiancee moved into my home 3 weeks ago, and has asked me to make
> good on my offer to give her half the garage.  I currently park my 88 911
> Carrera (mint) in the one spot, and the other spot has the 95 740i
(mint!).
>  She has a 1995 540i (nearly mint -60k miles)  So, I have to park the 740i
> in the - gulp - driveway now - arghhhhhhh.  I live with the woods in my
> backyard and while they don't hang over the car, the leaves trickle down
> and lay on the car while it's parked.  I'm bumming.  No more snow free
> winters, no more protection from the weather, no more protection from the
> crows that abound in my neighborhood (crowcrap!).  Should I get a car
cover
> for this car, or just leave it out there????  It seems like a royal pain
to
> cover it every time I get home, and if I need to go back out, to uncover
it
> and then cover it all over again.  Yuck...   Or, do I just wash it once a
> week and not worry about it - it IS just a car, right?  Or, do I park the
> Porsche in the - gulp - elements, with a car cover on it... wait a minute,
> the porsche - in the elements? I can't do that.  Right?
>
> Confused again in Silver Spring Md
> Steve Robinson
> 1995 740i naked in the elements and gathering leaves as we speak
> 1988 911 snug as a bug in a rug
>
>

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