Dealing with disappearing vehicles (SP)

[IBYCFOTA]

I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of the motorcycles in GTA, specifically the Bati 801, and ideally I'd like to be able to use it every time I'm cruising around whether it be for fun or to do a mission. So after finding one I took it out on a mission, and after completing it the bike disappeared from where I had left it. Is there anything I can do about this? I don't want to go through the trouble of finding a bike that I like only to have it despawn after a mission and lose it forever. Assuming I can't do anything about the bike despawning, what are my options as far as getting it back? Would parking it in one of the main character's personal garage first help, or does it not matter since I'd just be taking it out anyways? If I have to grab it from impound each time the game loses it that would be annoying, but it's better than losing it for good, especially if I put money into it for upgrades.

[Yoshack_Fyre]

Take it to the big garage that was meant for storing your modded vehicles. Once you've placed it there it's yours. If you lose track of it you can find it at the impound. The safehouse garage would probably do the same thing. Make sure you save your game before taking out a modded vehicle that's special to you. If it gets destroyed, apparently it stays destroyed. Doesn't reappear in your garage or go to the impound, you'd have to find it again and spend all that money again to mod it. I'm a big fan of loading a saved game. On my playthrough I have been WASTED zero times and BUSTED zero times. But I've actually be WASTED a ton, I just load to before it happened. I actually haven't been BUSTED at all. You have to actually want it to happen and make an effort to be BUSTED.

Edited October 20, 2013 by Yoshack_Fyre