Winter coming, need advice for this newbie...

Sounds like a lot of work. You said you were going to keep it running, but why?
Are you not going to drive it?
You know, if it was me, and I was not going to drive the car for a 6 months why not just treat it like a boat.
Fog the cylinders and pickel it? Fuel treatment and battery care would finish it out.
But I'm lazy.
Otherwise, like he said, can't you take it out and run it on a salt free road or something?
Short runs are not desireable. The world won't end, but that's not the best thing.
They also say in the oil ad, that 90 percent of engine wear is on start up.
Who knows about that one.