A fine winters mess

[Slowpoke]

How many of us does this happen to each winter?
All clean in the fall but now its a mess and has anyone seen my charger lately? 

[Lord Warlock]

It started with the fender on the roof,  if you don't put things on top first, it won't accumulate so much on the hood.  However, yes mine will accumulate more crap than necessary as long as it remains stationery and doesn't get moved.  Something about that long flat hood that looks like a countertop in the garage.   I don't even store household stuff in the garage mine sits in, but it still accumulates tools, parts, boxes for parts, wrenches, sockets and spray bomb paint cans.  (keep the larger ones on the shelf)
Had mine cleaned off less than a month ago, and its already packing on parts. 

[stripedelete]

I'm pretty sure there is a CJ7 in my garage.  I'll let you know in the spring.

[Charger RT]

My charger is uncovered and driven weekly but I have a 66 dart in the back corner of my garage that is covered and surrounded by so much stuff you can't see the car.
Tim

[twodko]

The primary issue as I see it is that beautiful flag tossed on top of that mess instead of being folded properly or at least folded.

The secondary issue is all that crap piled on a Charger.

Bad bad juju both.

[Ghoste]

Wow, not nearly to that degree but I did recently let go the lease on a storage bin and had to put too much stuff around the 67 for my liking.  But not on top. 

[Slowpoke]

the flag is just placed there for the night. I put it up on the side of the house in the morning and take it down in the evening.

[Slowpoke]

I will plead for leniency, other than the light stuff on the hood most of the rest is spare charger parts.

[Ghoste]

Fair enough and I have been guilty in the past.

[will]

Please take the sand paper out of the sanding block!

[twodko]

Please take the sand paper out of the sanding block!

Yeah! That too! 

Your punishment.......

Remove the star tats on the lastest "Chicks on Chargers" entry. The one with the partial Hooter's tee shirt.....

[Ghoste]

The punishment need to fit the crime.  Your suggestion is excessive and inhumane.

[Bob T]

Bad bad juju both.

Agreed.

I've always felt that stacking anything on a car is the start of the "Way" down. From there is soon disappears and becomes an inanimate object. I'll stack around it at worst 

[Ghoste]

Yep, had a HUGE row with the now former bride when I went in the garage one day to discover she had piled a bunch of crap on the Charger.  Should have been a clue huh?

[twodko]

Very well. I acquiesce to the major opinion.

[Fred]

Yep, had a HUGE row with the now former bride when I went in the garage one day to discover she had piled a bunch of crap on the Charger.  Should have been a clue huh?

Geezus!    I would have smacked her from here to kingdom come!

[Fred]

NEVER, EVER!  Not even if I ran out of storage space. My garages are for the cars. Everything else goes in the sheds.
I have never stored anything on top of a car, not even a junker.

[Back N Black]

NEVER, EVER!  Not even if I ran out of storage space. My garages are for the cars. Everything else goes in the sheds.
I have never stored anything on top of a car, not even a junker.

What Fred said.

[Ghoste]

Fred, believe it or not when I bitched about it here on the site there were a number of people who felt I over reacted. 

[JB400]

If you people have to stack stuff on, around, and in the Charger, you have too much stuff.

[Ghoste]

Hmm, an interesting judgement to be passed by someone who has never been to my home.

[JB400]

I don't think I'd have to visit your home in particular to make my accusation.   You can sugar coat it all you like, but either way, it amounts to you having too much stuff you don't know what to do with.

[bill440rt]

How many of us does this happen to each winter?

Nope. NEVER.
Not even in the spring, summer or fall. 

[Dino]

My car's been on stands since August and there's no way in hell I'm putting anything on top of the car.  Once you do that, might as well call it a shelve and forget all about it.

Clear everything from the car and clean it, no matter how bad a shape it's in.  You will be shocked at how much better it looks and what it does to your motivation.

[Ghoste]

I don't think I'd have to visit your home in particular to make my accusation.   You can sugar coat it all you like, but either way, it amounts to you having too much stuff you don't know what to do with.

There is no sugar coating.  Space that I feel like designating for certain products is limited and therefore I do know exactly what to do with it.  I could pile it on the car but I dont want to.  See how that works.
Now if you want to get technical yes stroker you are absolutely 100% totally correct and I could dispose of every single item I own except for the one car in the garage.  Oh-oh, but that might leave me with excessive space in which case it would mean I don't have enough stuff.  Oh crap!  Now what do I do?  Surely to God there is a professional service out there which can come into my home and make the call for me on what is too much, too little or just right.

Then again, if I don't have shit piled on top of the car, and I don't have crap bleeding out of my house onto the street, and I don't have things piled around inside my dwelling causing me to make pathways getting around then maybe just maybe, my amount of stuff is just right and I really don't need someone who has never been to my home telling me I have too much? (or too little or even just right )

[Lord Warlock]

Yall must not have owned one long enough so it acquires shelf status.  After 36 years, its more part of the garage than the tools or other gear stored inside.  I imagine those who don't stack probably don't sit on the fender either, or lean against it.  While i won't climb on top of the hood or walk across the roof anymore like i would have in my teens, or even used a stabilizing foot on a fender to reach something on the top shelf now that its been repainted, I'm not afraid of small stuff, lighter stuff that is part of a future install sit on the roof  or cowl area awaiting its turn.  Rather do that than lose it on a shelf or add more hooks to the wall.  The vinyl top protects it from scratches to the paint.  Right now I have new transmission lines on my roof, and a few panel welding tools waiting for the panels to get delivered. 

[Fred]

Fred, believe it or not when I bitched about it here on the site there were a number of people who felt I over reacted. 

I can say with certainty that I wasn't one of them. 

[Fred]

Yall must not have owned one long enough so it acquires shelf status.  After 36 years, its more part of the garage than the tools or other gear stored inside.  I imagine those who don't stack probably don't sit on the fender either, or lean against it.  While i won't climb on top of the hood or walk across the roof anymore like i would have in my teens, or even used a stabilizing foot on a fender to reach something on the top shelf now that its been repainted, I'm not afraid of small stuff, lighter stuff that is part of a future install sit on the roof  or cowl area awaiting its turn.  Rather do that than lose it on a shelf or add more hooks to the wall.  The vinyl top protects it from scratches to the paint.  Right now I have new transmission lines on my roof, and a few panel welding tools waiting for the panels to get delivered. 

You're right there L W.  Not even as a teen did I do anything like that. It's the same old topic isn't it, I've said it before. These things cost money. There was no such thing as easy come, easy go for me. Everything I own was paid for by me so I took pride in what I had and I take pride in what I have now. And it is all treated with respect. I couldn't have it any other way.

[Tilar]

Fred, believe it or not when I bitched about it here on the site there were a number of people who felt I over reacted.  

The way I see it is I had my car before I had the bride.  

Yall must not have owned one long enough so it acquires shelf status.  After 36 years, its more part of the garage than the tools or other gear stored inside.  I imagine those who don't stack probably don't sit on the fender either, or lean against it.  

I bought my 68 in 1986 when it was 18 years old, I was 29 years old. I am now 56 years old and it is now 45. I have owned it for 27 years. I do not store anything on it and even though it is in pretty much the same condition it was when I bought it in '86, I will flat throttle someones ass if they sit on my car. And no, I do not sit on the fender nor will I lean against it. To me it is a piece of history that can never be replaced.

[TUFCAT]

I'm guilty of doing the same thing... but in defense the car's always covered with a thick canvases/felt lined cover.

Even though it can protect from most damage, its still bad.  Right now I have empty cardboard boxes from Christmas stacked on it, and well as inflatable snow sleds!  Nothing heavy or scratchable but a bad habit to get into...

I was pronounced "guilty as charged" when Ghoste saw my garage last month (it was Christmas lights then)...!  Good thing he doesn't read many posts on here...

[Ghoste]

But having been to your place a few times I think I can also state that it isn't the norm for you.  You also clearly like to keep a clean residence and don't have what I would call too much stuff.

[oldcarnut]

Well I don't feel so bad now only its been more like the last year or so round not just winter  .  

[The70RT]

I got one in one of my garages that would take a couple days to get out. I bought it and put it away like 15 years ago. I can hardly remember what it looks like 

[Lord Warlock]

I bought mine when i was 17, I'm 53 now so i've had mine 36 years.  I'm happy for those that never mistreated theirs, mine has been through more than i wish it had been.  I do remember sitting on the hood leaning against the windshield watching movies at the drive in theater as a teen, never dented the car doing so, paint was a bit thin in spots back then so didn't sweat the odd small scratch that i do now.  I wouldn't consider doing the same to my new cars, they seem to be made of tin foil and wouldn't put up with my 200lbs waddling across the hood (things were different at 17 when i weighed 135).  I still lean on the charger, and may even sit on the fender, it has thick metal that can support me.  Plus if i do scratch it, i can fix any scratch i put into the paint that I sprayed myself.

Mine occasionally resembles oldcarnut's pic, although when it reaches that point i usually get motivated to clear it off soon afterwards.  

[69rtse4spd]

Well you know what they say, anthing flat pile it on & if it doesn't move, set it down over there I'll put it away later. Sadly the story of my stuff mostly.

[Ghoste]

An easy habit to get into and a tough one to break.

[Fred]

 I do remember sitting on the hood leaning against the windshield watching movies at the drive in theater as a teen,

You mean to say you weren't snogging in the back seat ? ? ? ?  man oh man!   

[Lord Warlock]

snicker....snogging...we don't use that term much here.  Can't see the movie from the rear seat in a charger, and since i had the buddy seat I didn't need the back seat anyway.  More than likely we fogged the glass so bad we had to move outside to watch the movie for a while.  Most of the time the drive in had double features, so you had time for both activities.  But then again I didn't always take a date there anyway, I'd also take friends I wouldn't want to snog with.

[Ghoste]

I never heard the term until the Harry Potter movies but I have to admit going to the drive-in sometimes to snog and sometimes to see the flick. 

[Fred]

snicker....snogging...we don't use that term much here.  Can't see the movie from the rear seat in a charger, and since i had the buddy seat I didn't need the back seat anyway.  More than likely we fogged the glass so bad we had to move outside to watch the movie for a while.  Most of the time the drive in had double features, so you had time for both activities.  But then again I didn't always take a date there anyway, I'd also take friends I wouldn't want to snog with.