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I do store mine for the winter, which normally runs from late November to early April. There are a lot of rituals and that people go through, but my ritual is very short, and definitely works.
If I store my vehicle where it will be affected by condensation (outside in the cold), I like to have the gas tank full, and I put fuel stabilizer in the gasoline. Most studies show the fuel stabilizer doesn't really do much good, but I'd put it in any way.
If I'm going to store the car in a heated garage, as I will do this year, I want to have a minimal amount of gas in the gas tank. I will also put fuel stabilizer in it, but my thinking here is that I want have the least amount of bad gas in the car in the spring as possible.
If possible I like to wash the car, and then get the car up to its normal operating temperature to burn off all the sulfuric acid that forms in a cold engine. Once at normal operating temperature, I parked the car, put a battery tender on the battery, cover the car, and I don't look at it again until I'm ready to drive it on a daily basis.
I don't see any purpose in driving the car every 30 days for 30 minutes at moderate speeds, as the guy above recommended.
I have been using the above procedure for all of the performance cars that I have had for the last 30 years, and none have ever suffered any premature failures due to winter storage.
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