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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You mentioned you go to [b]Carlisle[/b] for the auction a lot. What are the pickings like there? I've traded in a few cars to dealers a few times, and my impressions was they keep the good ones for their own used car lot, and send all the bad stuff up to auction.[/quote]

Yeah, that’s about right. The stuff at auction needs attention. Used dealers or wholesalers don’t wanna mess with a car they have to fix before selling. That’s a waste of money them. They don’t even staff a technician at most used dealers.

Which is why I buy at auctions. Because I can pay almost nothing for a car, literally like $50 more than scrap value sometimes, spend a few days fixing it, and turn at least a couple thousand dollars on it most of the time. The downside is I spend a lot of time waiting on UPS to drop parts off, and I have a lot of cars sitting on my property in various stages of repair, but my wife doesn’t mind. One of the benefits of having a big lot with a tall privacy fence. [/quote]

Could you please provide some more info about the Carlisle auction lot, city location, name of company (Mannheim?) and how best to be able to purchase a car from there? I believe one needs to go via a person of company licensed to purchase at car auctions, correct? I do small repairs on car myself so thought I'd take the risk getting a car from an auction.[/quote]

You’d be better off going to Gettysburg. They run a great auction that is very friendly to the public. The rules are a little complicated sounding at first, but you’ll figure it out. They auction of Thursday’s I believe. Manhien will want your dealer license, tax ID, and shipper info. Not as friendly to the public as Getty. Carlisle is mostly classics, specialty, and hot rods. I go for the hot rods.  [/quote]

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