Repairables

This program is where you donate your vehicle to a 501 (c) (3) charity. You receive free pick up and an official tax receipt.

The noncash charitable contribution may be used by you in filing your taxes to reduce your tax liability.

To receive a tax deduction from a noncash charitable contribution you do need to itemize deductions.

If you have other questions concerning itemizing deductions or how this may affect your personal tax situation, please consult your tax preparer or a Certified Public Accountant.

For more information on noncash charitable contributions click here and follow the links to the official documents on the IRS website.

You can also visit the IRS Contact Page for more help.

Cars For Resale

Fair Market Value and Publication 526

For information about determining the "fair market value" of a vehicle you can read "Publication 526 Charitable Contributions". Download PDF here. You can read the entire publication or you can start at page 7 of the document. Be sure to read the section entitled "Contribution of Property" and a section called "Determining Fair Market Value" and there is another section called "Cars, boats, and aircraft." This gives very specific information about that type of donation.

Fair Market Value and Publication 561

There is another IRS form that is pertinent, that is Publication 561. The publication is entitled, "Publication 561 Determining the Value of Donated Property". You can find that publication here.

Recyclable Cars

We always welcome a car or any vehicle donation. However, for years we have advised donors on this website that in order to receive a tax benefit the donor has to itemize deductions.

(For more information about tax deductions and car donations please click here)

Everyone Wins

Many years ago we realized that not only are we accepting donations to benefit the charity, but also to benefit the environment AND the donor. We realized that offering fast and free vehicle pick up is a convenient way for vehicle disposal (recycling, salvage) and a very great and needed service.

In order to provide donors, who cannot benefit from a tax deduction, with something other than free pick up the Auto Salvage — Recycling Program was developed. This program is a for profit program.

Auto Salvage Recycling Program

How our auto salvage program works

Generally auto salvage is associated with junk cars and selling cars for auto parts or buying auto parts. We try to salvage a vehicle by getting it picked up and fixed back up and put on the road and not junking it.

Most of the vehicles, such as automobiles, cars, trucks, atvs, motorcycles, boats, trailers, jet skis, etc. are not sold as junk or "salvaged" but are sold at auction to dealers that can fix them up and resell them.

Thus we pick up vehicles that can be fixed up. The only vehicles we pick up for parts are much newer vehicles. It depends on the value of the vehicle but usually we would only pick up vehicles that are newer than 1996 if they are only going to be sold for parts. This does not mean that we only pick up vehicles that are 1996 or newer. Those are the vehicles we pick up if they can only be used for parts.

We put no age restrictions on what we pick up. We pick up vehicles of all ages. Obviously the older the vehicle the better its condition must be in order to pick it up. We have no set rules. We evaluate every vehicle separately based on all of the information that is provided on the online form.

Our auto salvage recycling program provides a Fast and Free Pickup process and enables your old automobile, motorcycle or boat to be recycled thus conserving our nations resources and eliminating waste.

Is my car junk?

What defines a junk car can vary greatly from one person to another. For example a person who owns a gutted '79 Mercedes without an engine, might feel that their car is far from junk and has a lot of value. On the other hand someone with a 95' Lexus that has a dented front quater panel might think the car is complete junk and can't wait to get rid of it.

So what makes a car junk and what doesn't?

The Vehicle is junk if:

1. If the car is at the point where it's repair would out weigh its auction value.

2. If the vehicle is totally wrecked.