Salvage car auction

I'm shopping for a drivetrain for a project vehicle and have been recently watching the www.erepairables.com web site for candidates. Having found a suitable vehicle for what I have in mind, I'm curious as to whether others have used this site prior to my placing a bid.

Any comments, thoughts or suggestions are apreciated. Or other web sites folks might have successfully used?

Thanks, Tony

the website sucks....keeps crashing my computer.

Since posting my initial inquiry above and having registered on the site (but having not paid their fee), I've been emailed twice and called (yes, as in Called On The Telephone) once. Seems a bit weird to me. Don't think I'll proceed with placing any bids, let alone giving them my credit card #.

I am sure that a large number of those cars has nothing worse than a wet carpet. However, how do you ever sort the wheat from the chaff in this case?

I am concerned that drive-trains might start going to car-part and such where we wont know what the real provenance is.

fla33023 wrote: Try COPART.COM, depending on your state laws, you can buy salvage title cars and even view the cars on the lot.

Yup, this site sucks my car searching time as badly as Craigslist, because I can now look at Craigslist cars running or not, with or without drivetrains since a salvage running COPART car can be had for pennies on the dollar.

Check the Copart fees before you bid (easiest just to use Google to find them, they are fairly hidden on their website). I bought a clear title 450SL from one of their auctions early earlier this month and fees added over $400 to the final price. Still good deals to be had, but buyer beware.