Where to find hurricane cars

[cuda hunter]

I know these water soaked cars are in terrible shape.
But I'm wondering where to find some of these Houston cars that were damaged by water.

I watch lots of you guys take cars apart that were probably in 3 hurricanes over their 50 year lives so far.  So why not take a good looking car apart before it rusts all the way through due to the water. 

Where are these cars?  I saw an msn feature that said 500k cars will be destroyed.  Surely there has to be some vipers in there.   

Any advice? 

[Spikedog08]

Vipers, Cudas, challengers, chargers, superbirds and more?  Problem is there will be some trying to sell them without disclosing they were flooded . . . buyer beware.   

[rebelyell]

I'm sure some of them get shipped overseas. Some of them get their titles scrubbed illegally and resold, and I bet some of the owners just keep them and rebuild with a salvage title.

I saw a picture of 2 dodge vipers smushed up against eachother and covered in mud.

[HP_Cuda]

Hurricane Sandy showed us what folks will do.

Buyer beware.

[purple1]

I'm thinking some of these would be a good source for parts. Picture taking a new Challenger drivetrain and transplanting it in an E-body for cheap. 

Sure you would have to take it apart and clean everything, the prices should be good.

[ec_co]

sadly a lot will start to show up at auctions, the unscrupulous will ship them to auctions in more northern states to try and sneak em through too. it's a huge PITA that I get to deal with now in my new job (I'll be buying cars wholesale at auction for a dealership) and need to pay more attention to the Carfax and last registered location. sux too, the TX market is great for trucks. this is going to drive up wholesale costs to replace all those cars, so if you are considering buying a new/used car anytime soon, now might be a time to consider before prices get more locked (less negotiating room) or go up a little in the short term.

the water damaged cars will start showing up at wholesale auctions, craigslist, places like coparts.com. some will just be crushed and shredded into the next generation. the collectible/high end/luxury ones will start showing up on various sites as owners decide to keep and restore or just be done with it and move on. we saw it with Sandy, but those were more salt damaged IMO whereas TX was just heavy flooding and not an ocean surge/mix (my understanding, I could be wrong) ... so potentially less issues with salt corrosion. Irma will be another fun one, my prayers are out for you all on the east coast as well.

[303 Mopar]

sadly a lot will start to show up at auctions, the unscrupulous will ship them to auctions in more northern states to try and sneak em through too.

Any truth to insurance companies forcing owners to crush cars that are totaled due to flooding?  This would be effective way to stop people from reselling them and not disclosing the flood.

[ec_co]

I don't know the answer to that one, but it wouldn't surprise me if they had some 'no buyback' policies in place for situations like this, but there would be exceptions (eg: classics. no one will be crushing a Ferrari GTO or Hemi Cuda no matter what happens to it)

[6bblgt]

 

[ec_co]

I'll give you tree fiddy

[CudaMoparRay]

Unfortunately, the disaster in one place is then sent out to hurt others elsewhere in the form of a water damaged car being sold as good.

[jimynick]

I worked as an appraiser for decades and the big push during a catastrophe was always speed. Get the claim adjusted and devil take the hindmost! Copart was our salvor at the end and they're very good at what they do. If the cars are branded by the companies then Copart will not change anything and you'll buy it knowing what they know. The companies will try to recover the most they can for salvage as that reduces the loss and saves everybody money. We were very reluctant to allow I/S's to retain salvage for the very reasons noted here. I also knew some guys here in Canada that bought so many cars out of FLA that they bought their own car transporters and the variety of conditions of the cars was wide. In some zip codes the I/S company wrote every car off and paid out the claim and these guys got cars that in many cases, hadn't even seen water let alone be submerged in it, so the usual "caveat emptor" applies all round here.

[CudaMoparRay]

Interesting related article: http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/heres-what-happens-to-all-of-the-flooded-cars-after-hurricane-harvey/ar-AArt37H?li=BBnb7Kz

[Roadman]

Interesting related article: http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/heres-what-happens-to-all-of-the-flooded-cars-after-hurricane-harvey/ar-AArt37H?li=BBnb7Kz

                     Great article @CudaMoparRay   Thanks for sharing.        

[cuda hunter]

https://www.iaai.com/Vehicle?itemID=25946620&RowNumber=9&loadRecent=True

I wonder what bio hazard would be refering to.