Where to find Wrecked Cars/Trucks

[Fire Hawk]

Where around here can you find wrecked cars/trucks to pull say an engine/trans out of them. I see the engine/trans with all the wiring and such posted on ebay all the time and the shipping is a pretty penny also to get them here. Is there anywhere around here that you can find them local?

[Batwood]

Craigslist... it depends on what you are looking for.

[Deimos]

crashedtoys

[SaNdMaNsSi]

Depends on the type of vehicle you are looking for. My father sends at least a couple dozen to the crusher every year that aren't claimed.

[sLoWnStEaDy]

Plaza auctions every wednesday but you need a dealer license or someone with a dealer license.

copart.com (need a dealer license on most of these cars)

"Dart" down at Midwest Imports always goes to the Plaza Auctions and has brought a couple specific things back for me a couple times so I am sure he could see what he can do. Of course expect to pay a little more for his "troubles" LOL


Easiest/Cheapest thing is to just try and find someone with a dealers license and go with them to the auction or give them some cash to bid on a copart car...

[CiviC_boY]

Plaza auctions every wednesday but you need a dealer license or someone with a dealer license.

copart.com (need a dealer license on most of these cars)

"Dart" down at Midwest Imports always goes to the Plaza Auctions and has brought a couple specific things back for me a couple times so I am sure he could see what he can do. Of course expect to pay a little more for his "troubles" LOL


Easiest/Cheapest thing is to just try and find someone with a dealers license and go with them to the auction or give them some cash to bid on a copart car...


Dart no longer carry s a dealers licence....

[sLoWnStEaDy]

Dart no longer carry s a dealers licence....

Probably for the best...

[Batwood]

Plaza makes me nervous.
It seems like its a 50/50 chance of getting burnt on a turd that was doctored up to look decent and run ok through the lane.

If you want wrecked, we watch about 4 salvage auctions a week... and ignore about 100.
The only problem with auctions is the fees and actually getting the damn cars.
Search craigslist or "searchtempest" for what you're lookin for...

What are you looking for?

[Fire Hawk]

Thanks for all the suggestions. Looking for either a LQ4, LQ9, LY6, LS1, LS2 with an auto trans. The LQ4 or LQ9 seems to be cheaper and just as good of a foundation to begin with. Looking for something hit on the side/back so that I can get the engine, trans, ecm, wiring, etc... for a swap vs building an old skool sbc.

I could be wrong but it just seems like you could get a wrecked vehicle for the price of what some places are just asking for the engine/trans and supporting accessories.

[Deimos]

silvia v-8.comor v8silvia trust me there are like 4 there for sale in the last few months