Thread: Help with protecting my 1959 Series II

Buy a good car cover that is lined first and secure thaty.Buy yourself a really good heavy duty tarp with good tie down points. They are not cheap at around $300 but will protect it well. Another option is to get a used truck tarp. Ask your local trucking firms if they have any damaged ones that are still big enough to cover a car. I did this with a bike, buggy and some tools for several months. Not much will get in. Will get you through until you get the shelter built and even then can be used as well.
There are some really good fabric sheds now, but are around the $2k mark for a ggod one.

A mate of mine made a temporary but now permanent weather proof but not thief proof 'garage' for not much money at all. He got a huge panel of concrete type reinforcing mesh [250mm squares or bigger sort of thing] and bent it into a giant upside down domed 'U' type shape. Then he pegged it to the ground with tent pegs and covered it with some cheap big blue tarps tied on with cable ties. Voila – a weatherproof drive in /drive out car port with sides and built in a couple of hours. Later on he closed in one end and turned it into a drive in/reverse out garage.


Lateral thinking with very few dollars spent.

Trouble is that whether it is temporary or permanent, usually once it is over 10 square metres, which I think it would have to be to adequately cover a Landrover (probably want 3m x 6m = 18 sq metres) it would need building approval and council permits, same as a shed. Would be best to check with your council first to see if it counts as a structure (which it possibly would being like a carport) or can be passed off as a shade sail. Most suburban councils will let you put up a 3x3 tool shed or less, once anything is bigger than that it normally needs approval (around $500 - $600).

Last time I wanted to build a carport the kit was relatively cheap but all the council red tape was a pain so for not much more I went a proper shed. Same approval cost just slightly more to build. You can get some basic gal carports for around $1000 and put them up with 2 people in an afternoon.

i might be able to lend a hand.....bracken ridge you say, we must be neighbours