Re: How to go about buying a wrecked truck

From: Jon Slavic (jons@laserdrive.com)
Date: Tue Nov 08 2005 - 14:34:33 EST


Try these guys or search for some like these guys. My uncle buys Pontiac
Grand Prix and rebuilds them. He has done 6 so far. He pays ~4-5K and
spends about the same for brand new vehicles. Once done, he doesn't have
any problems with them. It takes time and money though to get it right.

http://www.huffmansauto.com/

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Jon Slavic
2000 Dodge Dakota Sport Plus, 4x4, 4.7L, CC, Intense Blue
2003 Jeep Liberty Limited, 4x4, 3.7L, Bright Silver

"Terrible Tom" <SilverEightynine@aol.com> wrote in message news:436AE40F.3010505@aol.com... > > Short of getting really lucky and having a customer walk into the store > tomorrow and tell me he has a totaled Dodge Dakota to sell to me, how can > one go about locating an entire truck thats been wrecked and someone > willing to sell it? > > I had a few ideas - some obvious - like simply calling up every salvage > yard in the phone book and asking them if they have any... to trying to > contact insurance companies (state farm, allstate, etc) and seeing if I > can buy them from them? Don't know if they do that or not. > > I was talking to a couple guys at work and they said good luck trying to > buy a whole salvaged truck - due to red tape and possible greed. (red > tape meaning the legality of selling a car/truck thats branded salvage - > and greed in that I would figure a salvage yard would not want to sell a > whole truck because they can make more off it as parts. > > Anyone with any experience or insight that could lend a few tips? > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rocks are for skipping... I'm all about the mud > http://members.aol.com/silvereightynine/ > AIM & Yahoo: SilverEightynine >



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