I've been down this road several times, there is *NO* such thing as a salvage
title in Maryland. Nor do you have to be a licenced dealer to purchase from
auctions like Brandywine. I've bought from them before, they are open to the
public.
Fred Thomas wrote:
> Maryland as well as many other states does have a "Salvage Title", when a
> car has be totaled-out by a insurance company, the reassignment on the new
> title will be "Salvage" where the previous title # would normanlly be, if
> you total your own car and want to buy it back from your insurer, you can
> but, with a "salvage title" reissued, "Every used parts dealer/junk
> yard/salvage yard "MUST" have a title for "Every" vechicle on his property.
> Maryland as well as many other states also have a dealers license for
> "Salvage Dealer" the same as a license for used car dealer. Many salvage
> yards, auction yards, or other business places that deal in these cars also
> have ways of having a salvage title washed-out and having another title
> issued through another state without the "salvage" designation. The largest
> "salvage' auction is held weekly in Brandywine on route 301, and yes you
> have to have a dealers lincense to buy at these auctions, but not from a
> junk yard, the yard David dealt with just wanted to part out the car would
> be my guess. "FT"
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