City Car Auctions Place To Find Bargains

With tight economic times, people are looking to squeeze money out of every purchase. That includes buying the family car in a nontraditional place -- a city car auction.

"A minivan probably worth $3,000 or $4,000 sold for $1,500. So yeah, that's a pretty good deal," said David "Frog" Hall.

KMBC's Jim Flink reported that some of the cars have checkered pasts. Most of the cars up for auction are fixer-uppers. Some of them were removed from crime scenes.

Prophett Maine just bought a Scion.

"It was well worth it. They're going for way more than what the auction is for," Maine told Flink.

Danielle Ewing went to the auction to car shop for her brother.

"That's a heck of a deal for a Lexus. I know, a '92 with 100,000 miles," Ewing said.

Ewing said she spent $2,200.

Mark Monger was buying up every car he could, Flink reported. Monger runs a pick-n-pull salvage yard. Every car has valuable parts worth money.

Flink reported that there were two kinds of cars being sold -- those ready to drive off the lot and those being sold for nothing more than scrap. Most of the cars sold Tuesday were not in driveable condition, but most of the premium cars were. Those cars are only sold once every 60 to 90 days at the police auto auction yard.

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