There was some sort of charity outfit in Houston that would get donated cars and have a live auction once a month at a lot they had in a fairly rough part of town. I went to a couple just for grins. Some of the cars were total junk, others not too bad. I remember some kid and his mother were there once and bought a half-decent 300SD for $800, the kid was ecstatic. It was a reasonable deal at the time. Another one I remember was a clapped-out Vega 2 ol boys bought to make a dragster, it went for some fairly big money, like $2k if I recall but they were happy with the deal.
The auctions lasted a year or two then faded away, no idea what happened to the organization. --FT Sent from iPhone > On Jan 19, 2021, at 6:52 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > They don’t care, because it’s essentially free money for them. > > My local NPR station has a guy that coordinates these donations. That is, he > makes the calls to the service that disposes of the cars/boats/whatever. They > never touch or see the vehicle, they just call a service that picks it up, > determines the best way to get rid of it (many times it’s CoPart) and sends > them the check after deducting his fees. > > -D > >> On Jan 18, 2021, at 9:45 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >>> On 2021-01-18 19:51, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >>> Too bad you have to have a dealers license or use a broker for TN >>> https://www.copart.com/lot/53868750/clean-title-1985-mercedes-benz-500-sel-tn-memphis >> >> Around here, the donation places don't want to mess with retitling, so they >> just leave it on the donor's title and sell it to dealers who can reassign >> the title. But that kills the auction value of the donated car. It's as if >> the charities don't care, because the car was free. >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
