[wrogers55]

If you are just transporting and can take your time:

Get a plastic wrap (like skink wrap but no skink, just sticks) roll. Clean your car very good and then just wrap it up. Actually it's easy and kind of fun, you can even do the underside bottom front and back by just rolling the stuff under and keep going. It sticks to itself and the car by static and you can put as many layers of wrap on it as you want. Then put the cover of your choice over it to protect from the big stuff. I actually wrapped the plastic wrap over the cover too after it was on, which is probably overkill but I had no idea what kind of weather I was going to run into. I used clear moving tape over the last layer of plastic wrap in a kind of a criss cross way to keep it all together, but that might not be necessary actually. Once I arrived after a 1,200 mile trip, we just unwrapped it like a Christmas present and it was perfect. And no, the plastic wrap doesn't "stick" to the paint and it is tough stuff, so all was well.

Plastic wrap is available from Home Depot moving dept., ULine is where I got mine, and so on. Takes a little time on both ends of the trip, but it's a pretty cheap way to make sure it well protected out there.

I have also used the stuff to cover the front fenders all the way down, then put any kind of soft fender protection over the plastic wrapped fenders you want when doing any extensive motor work. That way if the soft protector moves around it doesn't scratch the paint.

Good luck!