What I am seeing now is people choosing to part the car, a running car, rather than spend time or money fixing it, trading it, or selling it.
Why?
Simply stated, the value of three items is starting to exceed the market value of the whole car:
- headlights
- tail light arrays
- grill
After that, its gravy money.
- bumper
- hood
- hard top
- seats
- deck lid
- wheels
- DIC
- cluster
- electrics
- sheet metal
- glass
One wonders why there are a couple of fox grabbing every car under $2K and parting it? There you have it. Profit!
CASH 
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