Selling non-running vehicle..

DH is scrapping pretty steady right now. We are getting about 300-350 a car/truck body from the scrap yard. That is without the motor/tranny/catalytic converter, also minus hood, lights, wiring harnesses, etc. Heck, we are getting 4$ a pound just for wiring harnesses. If the junk yard told you 150$, that was for them coming to get it. If you would have taken it yourself and given it whole, you probably would have got way more than what you sold it for, but the gas tank would have had to be punctured and empty, and some other minor prep work done.

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I bought a $400 minivan off of Craigslist years ago. Seats were missing and the guy said it would have to be towed off and was not running.


Well we got it started and actually drove it home and my dad fixed it up for about $1200, which included going to the pull n save and snatching new seats.


So for $1600 I had a working minivan for a couple of years.


But that vehicle has ALWAYS been called "My "Special" $400 CL car". When it finally wore out past the point of not fixing it anymore I sold it for $200 in scrap prices. I thought about reselling it on CL but I was moving and wanted it gone quickly.


It's possible someone else decided to try that too.

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My husband buys cars on craigslist ALL THE TIME in the 4-5 hundred range, people claiming they've had them to the mechanic and can't fix, blah blah. 95% of the time he fixes them for less than $200, turns around and sells those cars for 3, 4, 5 x what he paid. He's no more than a shade tree mechanic, an engineer by trade and profession. Even scrappers around here will pay 3-4 hundred for a complete car with title..

My husband has picked up three vehicles that way that ran for YEARS. (One is STILL running faithfully) With my truck, their mechanic told them it was a 2,000 dollar fix, hubby brought it home, looked it over, it was only a 20 dollar fix and voila, a "new" running truck. Sometimes I have to wonder if mechanics tell these people these things so they can get more out of them, and how many people actually go get a second and third opinion before virtually giving away their cars.

We got $2,000 for just the chassis on our 2005 Ford E-450. We had the scrappers bid and took the highest one. They said the doors alone were worth $400 each. Plus then they would sell it for scrap weight once they pulled everything off.

Many scrappers get much more money in scrap prices then in selling it as is. My husband lost some aluminum concrete forms he wanted to buy, he just couldn't compete with the price the guy was going to get melting them down. My husband talked to a guy that picks up free/cheap cars and old tractors all year long and then has the big mobile crusher come in once a year, he supposedly makes very good money, on things people just want to get rid of and think have no value.

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You can piece out old vehicles like that to sell the parts separately then sell the body for scrap. $4oo in this market was a good deal for anyone willing to do that.

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