Your car will be fine. Yes, there may be dust. It's just stuff.

My car was 2 weeks old when I took it to the playa... the indelible dust marks on the seats still make me smile.

Don't let the idea of dust on your car deter you from going. Go!

I've gotten a few requests for the diagram, so here goes: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4899873729_48a1184d57.jpg It's based on LoveMonkey's marvelous Monkey Hut http://www.chromatest.net/Lovemonkey/ Here's what I remember: Rebar, connectors, tarps, and bungee balls are all according to the or...

If you can't fit 10' lengths of PVC tubing in your car, can you fit 5' lengths? You can build connectors for the 5' pieces out of 1.5' PVC, screw the connectors in place on site, and deploy the connected 5' pieces as the 10' pieces needed for the monkey hut. I did this last year, and it worked just ...