# Selling or donating a beat up car. Thoughts, experiences? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 21, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-or-donating-a-beat-up-car-thoughts-experiences/1021157 "2025-07-21T18:12:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-or-donating-a-beat-up-car-thoughts-experiences/1021157/61 "2025-07-24T19:51:49Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The car actually goes to a commercial subcontractor who sells it for $1000, takes $900 of that as their fee and pays the charity $100. NPR claims that their vehicle donation program delivers 70% to the station. Whether it’s true or not is an exercise for the reader. [Link](https://www.cartalk.com/car-donation/faq/npr-and-public-radio/how-much-money-from-my-vehicle-donation-goes-to-my-local-npr-station/#:~:text=But%2520when%2520all%2520is%2520said,your%2520NPR%2520station%2520very%2520happy.) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-or-donating-a-beat-up-car-thoughts-experiences/1021157/62 "2025-07-24T19:58:12Z")
Seventy percent of what? ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-or-donating-a-beat-up-car-thoughts-experiences/1021157/63 "2025-07-24T20:00:41Z")
Seventy percent of the gross. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-or-donating-a-beat-up-car-thoughts-experiences/1021157/64 "2025-07-24T20:09:09Z")
[Here](https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1241163673) is the transcript of a Planet Money podcast on exactly this subject. It follows one car from donation to an auto auction to a used car dealer. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-or-donating-a-beat-up-car-thoughts-experiences/1021157/65 "2025-07-30T15:39:25Z")
Selling my car today. (Why does the font in this text box look wonky?) Anyway, selling it through Peddle who gave me the best offer. It’s been a great car and while I don’t get sentimental about these sort of things, I’m kinda sad to see this one go. It was a great Uber vehicle, and I had [lots of stories](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tales-of-uber/831474) because of it. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-or-donating-a-beat-up-car-thoughts-experiences/1021157/66 "2025-07-30T15:41:51Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Why does the font in this text box look wonky? Here’s one of a number of threads in Site Feedback and ATMB: > [@Changes to post composition window in Discourse](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changes-to-post-composition-window-in-discourse/1021474): > > While making some replies today, I noticed two changes in Discourse formatting for the post-composition window. One is that there is no longer a preview being automatically shown on the right-hand side of the composition window. The second one is that, when you quote another post in your reply, the quote formatting looks different (quoting one of my own posts, for illustrative purposes): [[Imgur] ](https://imgur.com/UV7FYrl) As you can see in the image above, when you… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-or-donating-a-beat-up-car-thoughts-experiences/1021157.md?page=3)