>I've seen some extremely nice looking, rust-free, apparently
>well-maintained, older cars (e.g., late 1960's to late 1970's), with
>good interiors, new tires, etc. sitting in a junkyard with stickers
>from such charities on their windshields.
Always donate scrappable cars to your local fire department or heavy
rescue department so they can drill on them by cutting them up. Any self
respecting department will have gotten themselves listed as a charitable
organization so you will still get a tax write off.
And if you have a running car... give it to me! :-)
>It's my
>understanding that the titles to such cars are kept by the
>lame-brained cretins at those charities so that the classic cars can't
>be put back on the road.
Doesn't matter... once they hit the scrap yard, the existing title makes
no difference. The car can be recovered via a "scrap" title, and then
sold back out... it is just a messy, not easy ordeal... and 99% of junk
yards aren't going to go thru the heartache when they can just sell the
car in parts for more than the whole (and avoid ALL the paperwork)... or
they will just crush it and sell it as scrap metal... also probably for
more than selling the running car, and avoiding all the paper work.
At least that is the understanding I have from the guy that takes the
cars from my FD once we are done cutting them up. Maybe someone that
works as a scrapper can confirm or deny my understanding (of course, this
may very well also be a state by state kind of regulation).
-chris
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