Car Donation Charities

While people have been leaving estates that included cars, houses, and all manner of personal property since long before Henry Ford, only in the last 15 years have car donation charities begun to target people looking to get rid of their old cars.

Traditionally, when a car started to go bad and pile up repair bills, Americans headed to the car dealer for a new vehicle, and would offer their old one for a fair trade-in. Trade-ins values have become confusing as new car dealers use them to lure people to their lots.

Guaranteed $2,000 to $5,000 trade-in values, if you can drive your car onto the new car lot, remain common themes in automotive marketing. We all recognize that our rusting hunk of junk, with the bad transmission, can't be worth what the dealers are offering. We also know that car dealers will get there profit in the end.

This fundamental distrust of car dealers, coupled with our desire to do the right thing, are just two of the many reasons that car donation charities continue to grow.