# Selling or donating a beat up car. Thoughts, experiences?

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selling-or-donating-a-beat-up-car-thoughts-experiences/1021157/19 "2025-07-21T19:59:11Z")

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IIRC, [we donated a car to the Salvation Army when the repair bill came to be more than it was worth.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-favorite-car/968282/43) A few months later, we got an impound notice – turned out that the new owners didn’t bother to put it in their name.

I still wonder if we could have gone to the impound lot and got our now fixed up car back.

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