What is the best way for him to protect the body and frame moving from a dry to humid climate?
Rust etc.
I was thinking about that too since this is an Arizona car. It’s rare to find one of these cars without rust like that one. My car came to the midwest from LA, and there isn’t much that can be done about the higher relative humidity. But I do limit exposure to water and completely avoid salt. So my cat doesn’t go out on rainy days, gets sponge baths, and I don’t even drive it from when they first salt the roads until the spring storms wash the salt away.
I run a dehumidifier for basements in my garage and keep the humidity under 50%
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Great question! I hadn’t thought about that yet.
I will keep this in the garage and only drive it on sunny days. They also use salt here in North Texas (they pre-treat the roads with a spray brine solution before freezes, along with rock salt on icy roads). I will definitely follow your advice about waiting for spring storms to wash the salt away before driving on the roads.
My best friend has an original '57 Chevy with less than 20,000 miles on it. He got it from the wife of a friend of ours when he died for $100K (our friend had got it back in the early 80s for $18K from a guy who was going through a divorce and decided to sell it low to spite his wife, since it was a less-than-amicable end to their marriage). Our friend who originally got the car built a room in his house to store it, with a garage-type door so that he could take it outside periodically to start it. My best friend who now owns it has it stored in a specialty climate controlled facility in Florida for $400/month. He said that the interior still has a new car smell to it (not the spray fragrance!). He said that it just appraised at $1.25M! He is seriously considering putting up for auction with Mecum. I would post some pictures of it, but I am not sure if it would be considered sacrilegious to put Chevy pictures on this Cougar site . . .