Selling a junk car in Sandwich

If you would rather the car were gone, we buy whole non-running and junk cars. You sell the whole car as it sits, and pickup is free anywhere in the US, including a side street off Main Street in Sandwich.

State law behind the bylaw

The state also has its own abandonment rule that reaches Sandwich. Chapter 90, Section 22C lets a Sandwich street officer haul off and scrap a car as refuse. It applies after over 72 hours on a street or private land with no consent, when the job costs more than the car's value. If a notice about your car has already arrived, our notice to remove a car guide walks through the options.

The title, line by line

Titles come from the Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV). On the transfer section:

1. Fill in the mileage.
2. Sign it, print your name by hand and date it. The buyer signs, prints and dates too.
3. Enter the price if the title has a line for it. If it does not, the buyer must turn in a bill of sale showing the price.

Chapter 90D, Section 15 adds two items to the seller's assignment: the odometer reading as it actually stands, and a warranty of title. No notary step appears in the RMV's seller instructions. The Sandwich buyer then gets 10 days to title the car, paying 6.25% sales tax on top of the $75 title fee, with a licensed insurance agent signing the application.

Very old cars follow a simpler path. In Sandwich, if you own a passenger car of model year 1980 or earlier and bought it before Nov. 26, 1990, was never part of the title system. Whoever buys that Sandwich car gets a bill of sale plus the prior registration.

Plates and the Sandwich excise

The plates are yours to deal with. In Sandwich you can cancel online, then save the receipt and send your insurer a copy. After that the plates go to recycling or get sliced in two. A Sandwich owner may instead move them to a new car, but only within 7 calendar days of the old one going.

The yearly excise bill comes from Sandwich, not the state. Every year Sandwich charges excise at $25 per $1,000 of value, and that stops only once the registration is cancelled. Once a Sandwich seller signs the title over and hands off the car, state law puts later use on someone else. Massachusetts has no release form to file.

Nearby towns

Bourne sits 5.5 miles from Sandwich in a straight line; Barnstable is 7.5 miles off, Falmouth 10.1 and Wareham 11.6. Statewide rules are on the Massachusetts page.

Getting an offer

For a car in Sandwich, call (877) 421-6008 or fill in our offer form. We go to it, be it in a yard, a garage, or the spot it broke down.