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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Out of pure curiosity I did a quick surface skim of the larger car sales sites in the US. I found several decent looking cars in the $8K to $10K range at dealerships. Those are actually very, very good prices n this market even at retail.
Didn't have much luck with private sales but those are probably posted more locally and I didn't dig that deep. If there are $8K retail cars out there then there must be less costly private sale ones.
The bigger salvage auction sites have shitloads of them listed. I mean at this rate there won't be any eft in a few more years! Many had no bids listed yet but those that did were not dirt cheap. One had the whole front end wiped off it and the current bid was $2,500. One that didn't look too bad (though they took the picture from the undamaged side) was a $5,500 and still has two days left. Most looked bad enough I doubt that even you guys would be interested and will end up as part outs not rebuild. I also noticed that most of the wrecked ones (with working odometers) were well over 100K miles.
None of them were real close to the OP but I doubt he will find many in his backyard anyway since the big concentrations are on the coasts.
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That is actually surprising to me. Even when I searched with no location limit ones that didn't have astronomically high mileage were in the $16k range. And I agree that places like copart have gotten to be way higher priced and that’s not even factoring the fees that can be upwards of 40%. After seeing rebuild videos I noticed when people are rebuilding them for around $4000 that was years ago.