Selling a dead or junk car in Freeport

We buy whole non-running and junk cars. Sell the whole car as it sits, with free pickup anywhere in the US, from any driveway in Freeport's 4.835 square miles.

How a dead car turns "abandoned"

The state names three ways. Strip the plates and leave the car somewhere public, and six hours is the limit. Leave it anywhere public for more than 24 hours, and it qualifies too. Parked on someone else's Freeport property without permission, a car gets four days. Whichever town, city or village the car was left in gets custody.

Next steps in Freeport turn on the car. With no plates and a wholesale value of $2,250 or under, that authority owns it at once and can send it for junk, salvage or scrap with no title. Every other car gets the letter and the ten-day wait described above.

A dead car on your own Freeport lot is a different matter. That state law only covers public spots and other people's land. Your own property is left to local law, which is where the village's rules would come in.

If it has already been towed

Call the tow company to learn where it took the car and how much you owe. Under the state rule, a claimant pays removal and storage before the car comes back. Our guide on towed or impounded cars weighs paying to get it back against selling it from the lot.

The paperwork on a Freeport sale

You sign twice. Once in the assignment spot on the title's back, and once on the MV-912, New York's Vehicle Bill of Sale. A notary plays no part in either. The bill names the two parties and the car, with its VIN, the price and the date. Copies go home with each of you, and the original ends up at the DMV with the buyer. See bill of sale for what goes in each blank.

Title gone? The MV-902 brings a duplicate for $20.00. Albany prints it and puts it in the mail.

Your plates stay with you

Pull the plates and the windshield sticker the day the car leaves Freeport. Freeport sellers have no state notice-of-sale form to send. Instead, the plates you kept and your copy of the MV-912 are what you show if a lapse letter ever arrives. The DMV sums it up as "No insurance, no plates." Turn the plates in before the policy stops, and ask for the FS-6T. The counter takes plates only, not frames or screws.

Neighbors on the South Shore

Rockville Centre is 2.9 miles away as the crow flies, then Hempstead at 4.1, Lynbrook at 4.7 and Long Beach at 6.2. Our New York page covers the rules for the whole state.

Getting an offer

Reach us online or at (877) 421-6008. Name the car, its miles, if it still starts up, and if you can find a title. Pickup can be near Village Hall, at a body shop, or on whatever block it gave out.