Author Archives: Darrel Whalley

Long term vehicle storage is not simply a longer winter lay-up. What degrades after year one, what to plan for, and what three years really costs.

Every car storage facility claims to be secure and climate-controlled. Twelve questions that separate them quickly, with our own answers to each.

Flexible supercar storage means different things at different facilities. What to ask about notice, access hours and whether the car is ready to drive.

Winter motorcycle storage is a different problem to storing a car. What a damp garage does to a bike, and what proper preparation involves.

Vehicle transport is one of those services most owners rarely think about until they need it. Then the question arrives quickly: enclosed or open? The difference in cost is meaningful, sometimes substantially so. The difference in protection is also meaningful, sometimes substantially so. And the answer to which one is right depends on the vehicle, […]

Winter storage is the season most UK car owners think about when they consider putting a vehicle away. The reasoning is intuitive: salt on the roads, cold and damp, weather that a valued car should be shielded from. Guidance on preparing a car for winter is widely available — including on this site, in the […]

The phrase “daily visual checks” appears on almost every specialist car storage facility’s marketing material, including every page on the Pitstop 66 website. It reads well. It reassures. It sounds substantially better than “weekly checks” or “monthly checks” or the honest reality at self-storage facilities, which is no checks at all. But what does it […]

Extended time abroad presents a practical problem that many UK car owners underestimate until they are within weeks of departure finding car storage while abroad. What happens to the car? Not the daily runabout that can be sold or handed to a family member, but the one worth keeping, the classic, the weekend car, the […]

The classic car market has shifted meaningfully over the past decade. A generation ago, a good-looking car with a valid MOT and a running engine could be sold on its condition alone, buyers took what they saw and made offers accordingly. That market still exists at lower price points, but at any level above modest, […]

Six months does not sound like a long time. For a car parked in a UK home garage, perhaps while the owner is abroad, on an extended project, dealing with illness, or simply between periods of use, six months feels like a modest interval. The car is out of the weather. The doors are locked. […]