All of which reminds me why I sold my boat and bought a classic mustang...no more fogging oil, pickling cylinders, blowing water out of the manifolds or heat exchangers, packing wheel bearings, draining lower units (or worse, draining it in the cold in Nov and forgetting to refill in the spring...yes, I did that in my old age...$1400 to rebuild a mercruiser outdrive...and my dad the trucker always preached to me about checking all fluids!). The mustang is so much easier to use, work on, and put away in the offseason. But that's my choice...doing both boats and classic cars is great if you have the time and energy.

Pammy does raise one other variable...to run the car every few weeks, you have to be able to get at it. Lots of storage places pack 'em in or lock 'em in. Cost is a factor, too; I pay $300 for the private stall instead of $150 to be stuffed into a pole barn.

 

Don't start it up and run it unless you're going to drive it at least 30 miles. Just letting it run will develop condensation inside the crank case and this will get to intenal parts and start rusting. Put the battery on a tender as said before, fill the tank as full as possible with the highest octane possible, and put a fuel stabilizer in it. Consider "fogging" the cylinders. Check with a boat shop to see how this is done.