They are vehicles that were fully insured and some were stolen and then recovered by the insurance company, or sustained readily repairable damage from collision, vandalism, storms or street flooding.  The vehicle owner receives a cash settlement as compensation for damages or loss.  The vehicle then becomes property of the insurance company and is resold at a deeply discounted price. The 32 major insurance companies sell more than 15,000 salvage vehicles every week.

THEFT RECOVERED VEHICLES:  For example, you park your insured vehicle in the airport parking garage as you depart and then return days later  to find it gone. The police can't find it so your insurance company then pays you a cash settlement equal to the car's value.  However, a few months later the car is found, it may be fully intact or may have some damage or some parts are missing.  The car is no longer yours, it now belongs to your insurance company and becomes one of the more than 15,000 vehicles sold each week be the 32 major insurance companies..     

FLOOD CARS:  These are vehicles having been in various depths and duration of water from street flooding that occurs during extended and excessive periods of rainfall.  

VANDALIZED AND STORM DAMAGED VEHICLES:  A vandalized vehicle has sustained various degrees of destruction at the hands of a vandal.  It can include having parts stolen or damaged.  Storm damage can occur in the form of hail, fallen tree limbs, airborne debris, etc.

COLLISION DAMAGE:  People often ask us, "why doesn't the insurance company just pay to have these vehicles repaired for their customers".  Here's an example why insurance companies often decide not to repair a vehicle;  we recently  purchased a low mileage 1997 Ferrari GTS from an insurance inventory location in Atlanta, Georgia that had sustained easily repairable front end damage. However the front bumper and fenders needed to repair the car were on back-order from Italy for approximately 10 months. During those 10 months this Ferrari would have been sitting in a body shop racking up a  storage bill of $30 per day in addition to a $42 per day rental car bill for it's owner.  The insurance company simply decided to pay the Ferrari owner the replacement cost of the car and avoid the long and costly wait for parts. And once an insurance company commits to repairing a vehicle they are at the mercy of whatever unforeseen issues may pop up during the repair process in both cost and time. They frequently find it simpler and much more cost effective to pay the owner a settlement and to then sell the car in as is condition rather than to repair it.  Our service allows you to purchase these vehicle that come direct from the insurance settlements. Typically insurance salvage cars, trucks and motorcycles can be purchased for 1/2 to 1/3 of their Blue Book value. 

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These are photos of a readily repairable Ferrari an insurance company decided to sell rather than wait for the parts it needed.

1997 FERRARI 355 GTS  -  INSURANCE SETTLEMENT VEHICLE