So I'm sitting in traffic at a red light in Brockton Ma and a flatbed cuts in front of me with a ~2005 BMW 5 Series. It was just a bare shell with a drivetrain. No wheels, no interior, no glass except for a broken windshield. No dents, no lights. It was filled to the gills with scrap metal, all rusty and gross. The body looked flawless in shining silver paint.
I almost missed my light watching it go by and dreaming of the possibilities. Only to wonder for the next half hour about how it got there and why it was on its way to the crusher.
Made me sad.
yamaha
UberDork
6/19/13 5:36 p.m.
Theft recovery by the sounds of it.
But crushed? Is that mandatory? It at least deserves to have as LSx swapped in and get wrapped around a tree like a man!
Some states are weird about theft recoveries and salvage titles, I bet MASSachusetts is one of them.
sounds to me like a good Chumpcar build..
probably sitting in Everett's right now
Kenny_McCormic wrote:
Some states are weird about theft recoveries and salvage titles, I bet MASSachusetts is one of them.
Ohio is too. Anything with a salvage title has to have a paper trail of where the parts to repair it came from. I have yet to see a salvage yard that didn't have a huge sign that said "no parts for salvage cars", so that means new... you could probably buy a NEW 5-series for what it'd run to put it back on the road.
If you want to see why these laws exist, watch the first half of Gone in 60 Seconds. Inside look at the theft/rebuild game.
MA$$hole wrote:
probably sitting in Everett's right now
Yup, I was a half mile from there when I saw it!
In reply to Knurled:
ohio makes you prove ownership of the major components. real salvage yards like pull a part will print you a receipt with the vin of the vehicle you pulled the parts from. i'd rather have that than anyone being able to steal anything to put a wreck back on the road. we did a rebuild with salvage inspection on my dad's s10 when he hit a deer, it was painless and he had more paperwork than needed.
