Selling dead and junk cars in Salem

We buy whole non-running and junk cars from anywhere in Salem, one at a time or several together. You sell the whole car as it sits, and pickup is free anywhere in the US.

The junk yard rule, in plain terms

Chapter 236 bars anyone from running or keeping a junk yard unless they hold a junk-yard license plus a certificate of approval for the location. The license application goes to the local governing body, which state law describes as the selectmen, council or board of aldermen. Cars bought to dismantle for parts count toward the definition as much as cars that simply died.

The state law does not say how a town enforces it. Selling one car of the pair takes you under the count of 2. Our page on selling several junk cars covers clearing a yard in one visit.

Salem's own code

Salem's town code was not online for us, so only state law is covered here. Salem could also set local limits on unregistered or inoperable cars kept at a house, and those might be tougher. Check with the town before you plan around any rule here.

Paperwork when a Salem car changes hands

If the car has a title, you sign the New Hampshire title over to the buyer when you sell. On the back, write in the buyer's name, address and the odometer figure. You both sign, then the buyer takes it. The state asks for no separate notice of sale on a titled car. Signing it over and letting the registration expire is the whole job.

For a car older than model year 2000, there is no title. New Hampshire didn't title cars from those model years, except heavy trucks over 18,000 lb. A Salem seller gives a bill of sale with a New Hampshire registration, expired or current, or an old title if one exists.

Either way, the registration expires the moment ownership moves.

Keeping your plates

The plates are yours. Unscrew them before the truck leaves and hold on to the expired registration. When you register another vehicle through the town or city clerk, that registration earns transfer credit, and a like vehicle can finish the period at no added fee when its fee is the same or less. According to the DMV, as soon as the plates go on the new car, the old car is no longer legally registered and can't be driven. More in after you sell.

Salem's neighbors

Derry is about 7.5 miles from Salem as the crow flies, Hudson about 9.7 and Londonderry about 10.7. The New Hampshire page covers statewide rules.

Getting an offer

Contact us online or at (877) 421-6008. For each car, let us know what it is and its miles. Then say which ones start up and which come with a title. The truck can meet the cars where they sit, whether in a back lot, a garage or a driveway off a side street.