Why guys buy this stuff that an insurance company said is not worth fixing is beyond me....
Why guys buy this stuff that an insurance company said is not worth fixing is beyond me....
This wasn't an insurance company salvage/ Came with a clean title. No risk- no reward. I have a good time doing what I do, sometimes it is tragic, sometimes it is magic. I have a $105,000 original sticker price Mercedes in my garage with 50k miles right now that I paid $350 for, and documented it on BITOG. And have given multiple friends in need of a reliable vehicle cars I have rebuilt for free- that are still in service today. I am not on the sideline complaining about others- I am in the arena (Teddy Roosevelt).
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
No you don't have a $105,000 vehicle. You have a Mercedes with a clouded title -here in UTah I guess that would be a"salvage" title. ANd then it's worth whatever someone else thinks it's worth with said title. Not what you think it is. But you are in luck-because Utah is the capitol of salvage titled and odometer rolled back vehicles.This wasn't an insurance company salvage/ Came with a clean title. No risk- no reward. I have a good time doing what I do, sometimes it is tragic, sometimes it is magic. I have a $105,000 original sticker price Mercedes in my garage with 50k miles right now that I paid $350 for, and documented it on BITOG. And have given multiple friends in need of a reliable vehicle cars I have rebuilt for free- that are still in service today. I am not on the sideline complaining about others- I am in the arena (Teddy Roosevelt).
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Copart is sleazy AF. I would be careful if I ever buy another car off of them.
Sold the Park Avenue. Broke even after expenses (didn't make anything- not lose anything except time). Sold the first day I listed it. It will be a nice car for the new owner. He is a body man.
Sometimes you get lucky. My coworker got a newer v6 Cherokee cheap because of some moderate hail damage. A new windshield, 0 cares given about the dents, and he has a perfect work beater.Why guys buy this stuff that an insurance company said is not worth fixing is beyond me....
Sometimes you get lucky. My coworker got a newer v6 Cherokee cheap because of some moderate hail damage. A new windshield, 0 cares given about the dents, and he has a perfect work beater.
The 4.0 was always better than the 5.2. No idea how the 4.7s (V8s yes?) were.. or, what current Pentastar engines are.
There is a difference between buying a car at auction for one's own self, and buying it to flip it. Usually, even one thing needs to be repaired and the profit just is not there.
Sometimes you get lucky. My coworker got a newer v6 Cherokee cheap because of some moderate hail damage. A new windshield, 0 cares given about the dents, and he has a perfect work beater.
I had a rental car, Dallas late Eighties, bullet holes noted on pre-rental walk around. They noted it like it was no big thing.I’m not a fan of the magnum 5.2 or 5.9, sure they’re hard to kill but that’s about the nicest thing I have to say about them lol. The Cherokee never got those though, or the 4.7 V8, that was the Grand Cherokee.
The 3.2 Pentastar in the Cherokee is just a slightly smaller version of the 3.6, buttery smooth and great power. But I agree, I wouldn’t hesitate to buy something for myself from Copart or wherever that had some damage, but I’d never try to get into the business of flipping them.
Which reminds me of my other coworker who bought an Altima for a work beater from Copart. It had bullet holes in it... no biohazard, written off as vandalism, but multiple bullet holes. Nicknamed it the “murder-mobile”
I watch the youtube channel samcrac
The guy buys mostly copart cars, mostly sporty or exotic cars, and rebuilds them on his Florida ranch.
Pretty interesting, I think he makes his money mostly on youtube revenue and ad sponsors, not actually flipping the cars.
His word of advise, don't buy a range rover.
Your really showing your age there GON.