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I figured those $12 concrete blocks under my Buick frame were junk, but the car sat through two winters without a flat spot on the tires
Two winters ago I parked my 1966 Skylark in a dirt-floor garage out in Erie and a guy at the local car show told me to just set the frame on stacked cinder blocks instead of leaving it on the tires. I figured he was handing me a cheap shortcut and that the frame would get tweaked or the blocks would crack. I put four $12 blocks under the frame rails with a scrap of 2x6 on top, let the tires hang about a half inch off the ground, and dropped the air to 20 psi. When I pulled the car out in April the springs had settled back to normal in a day, no flat spots, no creaking, and the tires still held air fine. I was ready to call it dumb luck but I did the same thing again last winter and got the same result. Now I'm wondering if I should pull the wheels off completely and hang them on the wall to keep the radial tires from dry rotting, or is that overkill for a car that sits 6 months? Curious what you all do with tires during long storage.
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