Buying salvage cars for parts

[jhiggi83]

One thing to keep in mind that alot of the cars on Copart require a dealers license to buy if you win. You can run a filter that will list the cars the do not require a dealers license. Your other option to have access to all the cars is to use another middle man such as salvageautoauction who bid on your behalf with thier dealers license but with more fees. Another thing to realize is alot of people buying these arent looking at the value of the car rebuilt but the value of the usable parts. A working 3.2L engine goes for $3500 on ebay and a 3.4L goes for $7500 to $10,000 or more. Then every little part on that can is worth money if its functional. A car that you may see as only being worth $3k in its current state may have $10k in useable parts. So thats what drives the price. I read an interesting article on how to get a 500 horsepower Chevy LS engine for free by buying a salvage, pulling the engine and selling the remaining parts.