Where to find wrecked donor cars?
10-27-2006, 03:10 PM
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Where to find wrecked donor cars? It seems like the best way to do a swap on the cheap is to buy a wrecked vehicle. Is there an easy way to find one? Can you just call an insurance company? If you can do all the work yourself I think you could almost do a car conversion (mine is a 68 Firetird) for a couple grand or less (part out what's left over). Thanks.
10-28-2006, 09:01 AM
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I've seen specialty junkyards for F-bodies such as Hawks and Billy Grahams, but where can you find a wrecked C5/C6??
There are also salvage yards that specialize in Corvette's, there's a place called Vette2Vette outside of Chicago. Do an internet search for "Corvette salvage"
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10-28-2006, 01:25 PM
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Nobody has ever called an insurance company and offered them a hundred bucks over what they might get from a wrecking yard? Some of you guys may even have a yard you could fill us out-of-towners in on...
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10-28-2006, 04:25 PM
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no, insurance companies dont care. you have to get at the owner of the car.. tell them you will give them $500 more than buy back. (wrecked my own LS1 car and bought it back for $1500)
10-28-2006, 09:33 PM
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Watch for auctions also. You may have to have a dealer's license or know someone who does. One of the guys in our club has purchased 2 wrecked Highway Patrol Camaros, and more recently has been picking up police Caprices and Crown Vics. Most of these have mostly highway miles and are very well maintained.
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