Category: junkyard

Taking A Look at Cheap Cars Both New And Used

If by “cheap cars” you mean to say “inexpensive cars,” then there are ways to find one on and offline that will not make you feel like the setup guy in a bad comedy sketch. This does not mean you should neglect your due diligence, whether you want to buy or find a cheap car for sale. However, it does mean you do not have to be embarrassed if your wallet will not allow a new, top-of-the-line used, or mere moderately-aged vehicle.
damagedcars2On the other hand, will it?

These days, “cheap car” as a phrase does not mean rust bucket garbage wagons you can buy for a couple of hundred dollars and drive to death, or only keep until you can afford something younger and better, whichever comes first. (If you have ever bought a three-hundred-dollar rust bucket garbage wagon to tide you over, you probably drove it to death first, though it was not your fault: it may have been dying when you bought it in the first place.)

Just hit the Internet running and you can come up with a few dozen outlets through which to search for a cheap used car that is cheap in price alone. These can be, often as not, very well-built, well-apportioned, well-styled flyers like maybe a used volkswagen golf that the government, or the banks (and right now that may not be mutually exclusive), need to get off their hands post haste. It is not always just a punch line that you might land yourself a smart-looking late-model Lincoln for the price of a dumb-looking ancient Gremlin at an auto auction. It is not always guaranteed, either.

“Cheap cars” also means brand-new vehicles that sell for bottom-of-the-line prices. Nowadays $10,000 or thereabout is a cheap car. (Typically, at this writing, it is a Hyundai Accent or a Nissan Versa.) Usually, it also indicates a car having nothing but the basics and no accessories to speak of.

But “cheap car” can mean cheap used cars under $10,000 that will not fall apart the week after you buy it, license it, and insure it. In addition, a lot of those are very late model vehicles, too—from a 2004-09 Ford F150 pickup and a 2000-06 Chevrolet Tahoe SUV to a 2002-06 Toyota Camry and a 1998-2005 Lincoln Town Car. You can even find more top-of-the-line fare in that range: the 2003-07 Cadillac CTS; the 2001-07 Volvo XC70; and, for you pure sports car lovers, the 1995-2005 Mazda Miata and the 2005-09 Ford Mustang.

Remember always to investigate the vehicles as thoroughly as possible, because cheap second hand cars become extremely expensive if you discover the hard way that it has become a mechanical or operational nightmare. Unless you want to buy damaged cars to repair yourself, either to drive or resell.

Junkyard The Land Of Treasures

The junkyard has received many names because of the kinds of material it stores, most notably “the bone yard”, “auto graveyard” or “final resting place for automobiles”. Many junkyards have earned their referential titles because they are open vaults for the things the world once valued now discarded to wither away with time. The auto junkyard is especially a place we seem to put away things we have forgotten.

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Once stylish but damaged cars end up here in order to keep them from dominating landfills or destroying the beautification of suburban neighborhoods by occupying space in an otherwise neatly manicured yard. Though we delude ourselves into thinking there will be no more use for these vehicles, we often return to their open-air graves to recover much needed junkyard auto parts or salvage cars.

Owners of older car models who can no longer order special parts for refurbishing their cars can often come to the junkyard in order the save the day for their collector car. The companies that originated many of these models no longer exist, and when they do, they no long sell accessories or parts for long ago discontinued models.

If the owners can no longer find these parts at specialty retailers online or through special Internet auctions, they are forced to look for parts on old cars in junkyards and restore the parts before fitting them for their cars.

The car junkyard has more uses than just offering parts. The junkyard cars are sometimes a treasure waiting to be discovered. Many cars in the junkyard have been properly smashed down to mere layers of metal to prevent children or others who stray here from inhabiting them and hurting themselves.

Others are wrecked, but not compounded. Rescuing a car from the junkyard makes the perfect way for a car enthusiast to bond to his next great project. Some of the most beautifully restored models have come directly from the junkyard and received the attentive auto genius of some person whose hands itch for an old car to save.

One of the biggest benefits for car restorers or average car owners when they go to a junkyard to recover parts is the savings they will experience if they find what they are looking for. Most find their desired car part for a fraction of the cost that they would pay in a retail outlet.

There is no limit to what else you can find in a junkyard. Think of it as a treasure hunt in which someone has hidden the most valuable well-disguised nugget of gold just for you to uncover. That’s a driver alert, you can save real money here.