Awesome Rabbit. My nurse hooked my phone up to the TV in the room where I receive my radation therepy, and it made the time fly on by. Thanks again "Medicine Man". ( That's what my doctor calls you ).
@@cautloa its all about making that paper. Never enough money 💰 his time making these videos and editing them is worth something and if people want to place ads and pay him im happy to watch/skip through them.
Found my first hidden water damage thanks to this video, customer didn’t agree, but I know my shit now all because of rabbit. RIP Rabbit, he was a wealth of knowledge.
I remember years back Somerset Ky making national news over halved cars. Nobody in any news agency covered a single shop that did it right. Nobody ever asked how many successful car rebuilds were done. Even there in Somerset were good shops too. Bad apples ate the bunch that day. Merry Christmas thanks for sharing.
Great info Rabbit! The key is fixing them RIGHT! I've got a ton of good stories from over the years of being in the biz! One thing I've noticed is good help is getting hard to find! Good clip guys and frame guys are a dying breed! #MakingCarsGreatAgain
It's three years since you made that comment. I think the idea of having to go to college is fading. Kids no longer learn anything unless they want to go into STEM careers. The get out of college owing more than they will ever make in a cubicle. More kids are going to go into the trades.
My Pops always called cars with the 4 separate tire marks "coca cola" trucks because he worked for the for awhile in college. Said they overloaded them so bad it bent the frames. Lol, missing ole Pops, but thanks for the laughs
Thanks big guy, always great to see an Australian built car in the USA, & those things go like stink, Australian built Mustang, there was also an AWD version out here, Rj in Oz
Such fantastic story telling, man am i and many others gonna miss ol' 🐇 😢😢. Hop they got your marlboro red's up there Rob! I'll be found watching a couple vids from time to time❤
Nothing gets a Friday going like some stories from the Rabbit. I have a friend that just recently took that 6.0 out of a “GTO” and stuffed it into a Ram Air. I’m not claiming anywhere near 700hp, but it definitely has some pep. Glad you’re educating on the salvage title cars. Yes it is always a bit of a gamble, but if you know what to look for, you can find some Hidden gems. Thanks for always getting Friday off to a good start. #RabbitForWorldPresident
I LOVE rabbit, he got me into the car culture. I'm 30 and ended up getting myself a rx8 and loved it for 2 months till the apex seals went out, and now I came up on some money and got a 01 boxster and literally am thinking about putting that up for sale to try to flip it cause of this man. Lol I just love the porsche too so it's hard for me to part ways lol
@@timothydillon6421 what mistake is that? Do the boxster engines give out early too. I kno of the ibs problems on like 8 percent of em. But ya is there anything else I should know, I don't want to get rid of it cause it's a PORSCHE u kno, and a convertible lol but I also need a reliable daily and not break down.
@@averson7 it's all about the oil slosh in the crankcase. Even highway driving going around a large cloverleaf from one highway to another can feed all the oil from the sump to one half and starve the other half.
I have always bought salvage title cars/trucks. Since I do all the work myself, I can save a bundle. Then when I go to register & insure the vehicle, I have a licensed appraiser inspect it for the insurance company, so if anything happens to it, I get my money back. Great video Rob. Merry Christmas & stay safe!
I can agree 100 percent with you when it comes to salvage cars you go with your gut how many times ifi does't feel right stay away . Good honest presentation about salvage cars . That's what makes you special Happy New Year and may your prosperiety bring you inner peace and more in 2021 !!
I bought a used Mazda which had a roof grafted onto it after a rollover and drove it daily for two years it was a good driving and reliable car, I didnt even notice or even know this was the case until the guy I sold it to told me after that it was salvaged, it was so well done you had to look really really close to see it.
Water car story . An older u tube video of Florida or Texas Hurricane that caused savear flooding. GM dealer put in a claim for whole lot . Guy picked up brand new ctsv cheap at auction . Recieved car to discover the car never touched water . Car was in the showroom and never even got wet . I have alway loved that story .
early 90s salvage cars were it! a guy buys an 87 5.7 iroc z back haved it from an 82 2.5 Camaro, looked good but I never drove it. countless Camaro, firebirds and fox Mustangs were pieced back together back then. so I bought an 88 BMW cabriolet, girl rearended a pickup. I stripped sheetmetal off. I took it to a body shop and they pulled it on a blackhawk bench system. after I got it home and seen how bad the crumple points looked, I junked it. no more front hit salvage cars.
All my personal cars with the exception of 2 have always been salvaged cars. My current 2015 Canyon was a salvaged title. Can be a great deal if you know what to look for and not get bitten.
My dad has a body shop and a dealer license. In his small town there was no where to rent a car while yours was getting fixed so he started renting the clipped cars, low mileage late models and the renter never knew the car had a past. Just like the cars ed likes to rent.
Great video. On the subject of why was it totaled: had a lady come into our Honda dealer with a new CRV. 1500 miles. She left the sunroof open during a rail storm. All kinds of warning lights on and electrical freakout. GEICO adjuster came to look at it. Totaled it on the spot based on his passed experience with dash electronics getting wet. We were a little shocked but there you go. Had a similar situation with the same model about a year later. 25,000 miles on the car, Customer didn’t want to go through insurance. We stripped the interior to dry it out. Replaced 2 control modules and the interior wiring harness and the car was fine. Now, at our shop rate the bill was $1000, but still. Far from totaled.
When I was doing body work professionally, the place I worked at made our courtesy cars from insurance auction buys. The one I remember the most was a Honda accord that we used the rear clip off of... It was in a front end crash on the way home from the grocery store, a package of chicken legs slipped under the rear seat, the car sat in the yard until summer! The smell when the car was rolled into my parts painting booth was awesome! It was the only time I put 3 coats of clear on the inside of a car!
My first body shop job was at a salvage car body shop. He owned a tote your note dealership. Shady, didn’t even come close. But paid me on time every time. Was pretty good with a frame machine. But glad I left and went on to other paint and body shops. Learned a lot from him.
Back “ in the day” I used to install a lot of pop up sunroofs in cars that were “clipped” . VW Rabbits were popular for that. The sunroof eliminated a lot of welding. A friend of mine bought a MG that was made out of two cars, one day her mom rear ended another car and the MG broke in half!
I worked at a L-M Point that was the flagship dealer for a small group in Florida . Our body shop would tell the tail about a Mercedes SL that he knew of that "took a swim" in salt water. When it got pulled out the owner dragged it home and dropped it in his swimming pool until he had accommodations to get it repaired. The body/restoration shop stated the fresh water soak after the salt bath probably saved it.
First family I married into about half of them were in the auto body repair bidness. Late 70s, they were 3hrs west of DFW and the big auction yards. 75%of the cars they rebuilt were chops. Front half and back half. We got married she had a 76 Grand Prix. Brand new Sears radials were wearing out in about 3000 mi. Always noticed the carpet looked twisted. Pulled up the carpet in the back and there was a booger weld running all the way across.
Used to buy and flip front end dmg Pontiacs with my buddy back in the early 2000's. Just Pontiacs. We always put the back to stock, with the exception of some funky paint jobs (ghost flames ets) on a few ;) brings back memories! And F water cars!
Let's not forget that sometimes them old salvage cars can damn near make you a millionaire. Especially when you have a RU-vid channel. Just to the south and west of you, Rob at the Georgia, Tennessee line. There's a couple of brothers that have made serious bank from salvage cars. They also have a friend with a frame machine who's currently restoring a Mc Laren. Don't let anyone try to tell you there ain't no value in them there salvage cars!
@@rabbits_used_cars Knowing that is the Gods honest truth. I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. I'm not going to come on your channel to pimp someone else's, even if they are a couple of Southern boys. But they damn sure parlayed their act into some serious money. RUC is tearing it up too, so it's all good 👍
I use to have a 04 gto that use to haul ass. Did a baby cam rockers,springs, and 3.91's got me to 12.1 at 114.35. Loved that car wish I could find it again. Rob if you ever come across a yellow 04 gto with a sunroof let me know cause if its mine you want that engine!!!
My 95 Mustang has a salvage title. I had just restored it for my wife and a woman rear ended me in it in 2010. Being it was a 95 of course the insurance company totaled it despite having less than 3000 miles on the new engine and transmission. bought it back for a grand and had the body shop fix her back up and it's still at my house today. Runs like a champ. Talking with the body shop guys they replaces the rear bumper mounts, a few braces and the bumper covers. Shot some Sonic Blue paint on the new pieces and boom she was fixed. I think there are a lot of good deals out there where insurance companies just rubber stamp claims when the vehicle could be fixed cheaper than totaling it but they dont want to invest the time.
Late model GTO’s with salvage titles are only number 2 to V8 mustang’s with salvage titles! But nice buy on that little modern hot Rod there Rob. I’m sure you got it for less then what was spent under the damn hood
Did Rabbit just admit and tell us he’s a shady used car dealer like we didn’t know this already? It’s ok rabbit, you’re our favorite shady used car dealer
Yeppers rabbit 🙃 . Got a great deal on a loaded 06' Tucson gls sport w/ a salvage title due to fairly minor damage on the rear corner that cleaned up nicely. It's Danny a great daily driver for a couple years now 🙃 ..
My dad would buy ford escorts that have been smashed from rear end collisions , cut them in half and weld in a new rear clip from a front in collision car. he would have$3000 in a car that had only 2000 miles. And then drive the wheels off of them.
That was a nice GTO! Looking for one like that! Wish I had saw this a year ago! Keep ‘em coming Rabbit! King Of Story Time! Your more entertaining than that Big Ass Book they used to bring to Elementary School! Lmao! Yeah I’m 44 not many people nowadays know about the Big Book!!! Lol
I usually buy problem childs, a lot of wrecks drive better than new because the factory f-ups get fixed at the body shops. Bought a 88 Bonneville in 90, bumped drivers side, fender,hood headlight. Found the rattle when we fixed it, 10mm in the factory fender.
My wife daily drives our salvage titled Saab. Picked it up with low miles for half the blue book. Fixed a few poor repairs to the body and 50k miles and 2 years later it’s still going strong.
I had a , 95 ragtop Mustang w a salvage title. I drove it 4 years year round in MT. My daughter wrecked it in high school. Only issue i ever had was i had to replace the mass airflow sensor. I miss that car lol
My dad got a mid 70s vette that a guy had claimed for flood damage when hurricane katrina hit. He didnt realize by him doing that and taking the insurance check he had to give the car to the insurance company. They eventually had to get the cops to tell him if he didnt turn the car over he was gonna be arrested so he gave it up. Turns out his garage only got a few inches of water in it and didnt even get close to touching the rockers. So got a mint 4spd vette that was extremely clean for 2500 lol washed/waxed it drove it for a year and sold it for 7800.
4l60e was a decent transmission. Of the MILLIONS of trucks sold they weren't that bad. They are nowhere near as bad as say a CVT from the early 2000s till now in any Nissan
I fixed and drove "fixed"cars all thru 80s and 90s. I didn't have to try and sell them,someone would see me driving it or their friend would tell them about the wrecked car they had bought from me years ago,sold. Had lots of fun and made a lot of friends. Still buy them from my friend with a tow yard.
Bought a 2013 GTI a few years back out of Atlanta. As I tore the front end apart to change the timing chain tensioner I discovered the car had a front end off of a white GTI welded onto it. They even went as far as engraving the vin number on the quarter panel rails of the replacement front end. It was a good car, but we sold it after that, and bought a new Golf. Damn folks can be sketchy. Our lesson was to hell with the carfax. Give me an hour and a good flashlight to inspect on.
Carfax is like pissing into the wind. I've seen high dollar cars that have a good carfax but have been chopped,sliced,diced,you name it but nothing on Carfax!
You can fix almost any car back to showroom new . The biggest thing is who fixes it and how much money it cost. The first General Lee was fixed and I saw what it looked like when they pulled it out of his backyard!
Salvage Title doesn't always mean stay away. My mom found an 89 Ford AREOSTAR Mini van with less than 60.000 miles. It was a salvage title vehicle. New grill, Bumper and radiator that was all they replaced. Nothing was bent which made it interesting. Minor front end damage had the insurance company total it out. twenty one hundred dollars later it was moms. Drove nice never any issues
As someone who has dabbled in the salvage repair game.... water cars can be great flips IF DONE CORRECTLY. But the time, money, and migraine medicine involved to do it correctly will land you in an AA meeting before the end of the first week. And when he was talking about the sand coming out? 10000% true. Did a Jeep Grand Cherokee that got trapped on the beach, flooded when the tide came in. To this day, there is still sand coming out of the frame rails.
I dunno, Rabbit, I think the Mustang made no fiscal sense to rebuild - but the knowledge you gained from that one sale put you into the place you occupy today. I'll keep saying this until I'm blue in the face, it's not who you know, it's what you know. Sure, who you know can help but if you don't know which ones to avoid? yeah, we're back to what you know.
I’ve been rolling a salvage Subaru (basically got a fender punched in that pulled back out, and a few scratches) for 5 years. It’s 15 years out and been great, gonna run it until it rust away.
I bought a cheap S10 at salvage auction few years ago. 250k miles, hit a deer, busted grill, lights and knocked radiator support back. Now it has new grill and lights, same bent up rad support, 318k miles and counting...
my salvage story: bought a 2007 Altima 2.5S for $800 off a guy. Got T-boned by a tahoe at a 4 way. No frame damage, got it aligned and on the road. Put 2 junker doors on it and drove it for about 18 months without an issue, got T-boned again six inches away from the original impact point by a dodge journey at a 5 way. Drove it home, its sitting in my grandma's driveway while im at trade school. Love it more than my 99 ram 5 speed, nothing slows it down. Dont tell my insurance or the DMV, they think its been repaired by a dealership both times.
As long as they use a PDR guy, a guy I work with bought a repaired hail damaged Holden Commodore (same as that gto but a sedan) looked pretty good when he got it, two years later ever panel was covered in egg shaped cracks, someone had just used filler and re sprayed it. Worked out well for me, bought it cheap as chips, put the manual transmission into a base model automatic sedan I got cheap with a blown trans, put the new shocks and springs he put in it, put the ss interior in mine too, parted out the rest and made enough to rebush the whole front and rear suspension and fit a new radiator. Kept the lights ,mirrors some trim and bumpers. Scrapped the rest and got me a set of tyres Now I'm into this VT executive sedan for about a grand all up and it's exactly how I would have ordered it from the factory 20 years ago..
The shady dealer hiding a salvage car is the one to worry about is more of a problem then the stamp on the title. I’ve totaled 2 cars, and rebuilt them before deciding they weren’t quite right and selling them with a clean title. Now salvage is in my wheel house. More vehicle then I can afford. I’m currently running an 08 Silverado 2500 I bought for 4K, I invested 1k, and I will spend 1k in the spring for body parts to make it look right. I remember around 1998 the Chevy dealer had s-10’s for 2500-4000 new as is. They spent somewhere under 30 days submerged in the Mississippi. I didn’t buy one. I even asked the salesman if that was the final price, and it was.
I once bought an otherwise perfect 74 impala for $400 that was driven to church on Sundays. The only problem was that the lady parked it under a car port where the rain poured right on the rear quarter making a 2 foot diameter rust hole from the vinyl top to the top of the fender. I used chicken wire, duct tape and bondo to perfectly fill the void inside and out. I matched the paint and glued the vinyl top back down and the car looked perfect. Low mileage 350CI V8 I put a nice stereo in it, wheels off of a 95 suburban and converted it to R34 and it was a sweet ride. I drove it for three years and ended up selling it for what I paid.
"Looking for a car for my *first* wife..." WTH and LOL AND shopping for her at a salvage auction! True love! "You should take her to this nice joint down the block, the Classy Chassy it's called. Try the roast beef"
My daily is salvage rare tsx 6 speed manual.. but have fun getting insurance to pay ANYTHING out on an accident on a salvage. I've been down that road..
I think my 03 F150 might be a low key water car. Electrical is a nightmare, but she is crazy reliable. I also had a fire car and I regret getting rid of her. F250 with a torched back end.
My brother wrecked a 1995 Lincoln towncar my dad planned to give me for college back 2002. He went through a phone pole and then into a tree because he fell asleep at the wheel after a double shift at work. He was completely unharmed, but it he put the engine of the car in the passenger seat. I had never seen that much damage to a car. The side was so bad you could lean over and see the muffles on the car without a jack. I miss that car. It was all white with blue guts.
Mr. Pitt I would like to tell you that your show is awesome!! I also have a question. Do you have a website for your used car dealership? I have been searching for the past twenty minute’s and I can not find a website for your dealership. Could you please send me a link in the reply? Also if I can not find it. I am sure other people can not find it also. Which I am sure you know that is not good for business. Especially in this day of age. EVERYBODY STARTS WITH GOOGLE WHEN FINDING EVERYTHING FROM CAR’S TO GUN’S. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you and have a blessed day.
Best purchase I’ve ever made with a car is my Buick, salvage title, 92K miles, 06 lacrosse mint. 92K on it, paid $1000 for it over a year ago, still rockin and all I’ve done to it is change the oil baby.
