You don't want to be the guy who restores auction supercars, you want to be the guy who sell parts to the guy who restores auction supercars.

before UKpostsrs started buying these things up, the prices were much more reasonable. People were paying less than a quarter of some of these cars original worth for cars in better condition than that ferrari.

Posting what they sold for makes the video so much better. 👏

The reason it makes no sense to buy auction cars anymore, is because of youtubers. They spent all this time lying to people about how much it costs to do, and now all these jabronies are bidding up the price of auction cars to the point that it's more expensive to repair an auction car than just buy a clean title used car.

14:54 Uncle Tony's Garage did a really good video on why rivian trucks are so obscenely expensive to repair after an accident. Turns out that it's because of the integrated aluminum body panel construction that basically necessitates completely replacing half the vehicle even for something as simple as a minor fender bender.

Best video ever, love the fact you posted the prices.

The number of times we have heard Sam says he's nearly finished a car, but yet we never get to see the results but yet a new car video.

Definitely enjoy videos like this, always wondered about total costs involved when buying from copart. But i also know that in order for it to sense, one would need the ability to repair these projects basically in house.

UKpostsrs killed the market

I really like your Copart walk-arounds especially w/Sage. Including RVs is good too.

Goonzquad is a good example of spending way more than it’s worth to rebuild salvage autos.

Outstanding that you showed the sold for price.

As someone who buys crashed bikes and rebuilds them on UKposts, let me confirm something: you lose money when rebuilding (yes, even on bikes). Regardless if it's a clean title or a salvage title, the resell value will be less than the bike and parts (and of course in the meantime you had to buy more tools and create a paintbooth somewhere). If you do it right you will lose thousands of dollars, if you do it cheap you will lose a few hundreds. Rebuilding doesn't make financial sense. The only way I see it becoming a profitable business is by parting out the bikes and sell the parts on eBay. It's a great business to go in if you enjoy fighting rusted bolts, have an inventory of parts all over your house, take photos of this constant flow of parts to then create eBay listings and package/ship weird shaped things when they sell. After eBay fees you may have enough to keep going. But if you like money you might want to find another business idea, just my personal experience

Definitely one of your better videos. I enjoy the fact you covered more than just cars 👍🏾

I bought my car on Copart in the beginning of 2019. I paid $1750 with fees and transport to the friends shop for it. Nowadays the same car goes for around $4k in a much rougher shape, adding the cost of repair makes no sense to buy this car anymore. And I'm talking older BMW, like 15 years old! Back then for the price I paid for it I had perfectly sorted car, visually and mechanically for the price of used car on the market that more than likely still had some things that needed to be done. I know about this business from when I was little, Copart and IAAI are the ones I knew even before I got here in the US. Nowadays it doesn't make sense financially to buy cars there anymore. If I can pay like a $1k more for a clean title car on the market, I'm not gonna bother doing all the work just so I'm gonna end up with a rebuilt title car that's automatically worth less on the market and it's very hard to sell later. But to be honest, these days fixing car from auction will make you spend more on the car that it's worth on the market.

I like the way you think Sam... I'm learning a lot of your way of processing the best way forward... thanks.

Copart has a ton of fees. I bought a totaled car as a parts car, my winning bid was $850, final price was around $2,000. Not only are there a variety of fees, but at least in the one I used in the Tampa Florida area, only a licensed auto transporter can remove the car from the yard (maybe it's different if you have a dealer's license, but I am just a regular person). So you can't even take a trailer and pick it up easily. So granted the $2k included delivering it across the state, but still it was far from the $850 I started with and either way I would have had to pay a transporter to get it out of the auction yard.

Great video guys thanks. Hail damage on vans normally mean water leaks in the roof.

Thanks for the video you shot for steve lehto i enjoy both of your shows

That Conquest TSi you showed in the intro was my second car. Mine was electric blue, really fast and so much fun. Loved that thing.

Really enjoying these type of videos Sam. Thanks

As someone who builds RVs for a living, hail damage can tend to be detrimental to an RV. Roof damages lead to massive leaks and it’s a super expensive repair. We’d charge 4-6k to redo a roof on a unit that size but that also comes with a “warranty”

VIN Theft, some folks just steal the VIN tag....for use on a stolen car.

what happened to the V12 you sent to VTune to fix the frame? He posted a video showing it was repaired and we never saw it again?... that was over a year ago or so.

I love these co part walk arounds especially when you say what it sold for

If you are not in the financial market space right now, you are making a huge mistake. I understand that it could be due to ignorance, but if you want to make your money work for you... prevent inflation

Crashed cars are not worth it anymore in the post covid world. By the time they're fixed (assuming they're even fixed properly), they cost almost as much as a non crashed car with similar year/mileage and will always have a crashed title.

Really liked seeing the final selling price

I love heading to the auction with Samcrac!

Keep these walk arounds coming

That 991 is a 3.8 NA, the refresh to the 991.2 brought the turbo engines across the 911 Lineup

I enjoy your vids when you go around salvage yards the most .

nice vid dude thanks for showing us around with u 2!

Great ideea Sage with living in a camper.I was thinking the same but the big problem fr me was electricity supply and water beeing in a city

The hail damage is almost certainly a situation where a dealer had this for sale used, ready to go and the roof or similar got the damage. They can get as much in insurance as selling it damaged and clear up a spot. As long as it doesn't leak, you're golden as nobody looks at the roof of your trailer - lol.

Great video, liked the format.

Auction and insurance companies know that UKpostsrs will pay for it, even if they go backwards on the build as the Adsense money pays more than most cars, and they need to keep buying them for frequent uploads

Weird seeing you and Stradman making similar content on the same day. Didn't expect that.

It’s always the same, I used to buy insurance write off laptops to refurbish and sell, always hard to know if you bought something viable or only good for parts. It was ok for a couple of years until people found out and would bid crazy prices thinking they were getting a 600 laptop cheap only to find they bought junk, it just became hopeless to buy stock so had to give up.

These are good, a higher volume of what you see and what it went for total in a neat add-on.

Blame the youtubers. Same thing that happened with the stupid "we're gonna lose the shop" TV shows. They say they buy and sell classics for insane prices, which is a lie, and every moron thinks their classic is worth a fortune.

Great video, the prices of some of them damaged cars is crazy expensive.

RV's like that are crazy, my parents bought a 2023 model Jayco North Point 382 for just under 130k while their home was being built. little over a year later the thing is worth like 55-65k. they didn't plan on selling it, but crazy how much these drop in price.

The GTC has a wicked exhaust note in race mode. The handling is very close if not better than a 911. I own both.

Stradman looking at that: 🤣🤣

The motorcycle probably had the most return on investment. Would go for at least 10x the sale price with minimal work. So that one.

23:41 it looks like the axles have shifted. Usually the wheels are centred in the arches. 🤔

this was fun... please do more

Insurance guy here - that Rivian might be an animal hit. Sheet metal usually crumples like that when you hit an animal ( or person? 😳)

I would never want the headache of a supercar with issues.

Sam Exactly my thoughts on salvage auctions!! YT rebuilders are driving these auction prices 🤑🤑

Thx for showing what they sold for, interesting to know.

Hey Sam thanks for the great content! Cheers Pat🇦🇺

I watched the entire video looking forward to seeing that 1989 Chysler Conquest TSI or Mitsubishi Starion, but somehow missed it🥴

I can't get my head around who the end buyer would be for a rebuilt supercar ...at those prices. I mean, for me, if it has a rebuild title, its instantly 60% market prices. So if a clean title car is 250K, then a repaired rebuild is worth 100K. At 100K you'd still have trouble finding a buyer.

Sage sure does like to gently place his open palm and the cars, haha! Guess his love language is physical touch.

The buy salvage and fix on UKposts has become so popular it's raised all the prices and ruined the fun of it, like American Pickers did to garage sales. I used to make a living buying and selling musical instruments from and on Craigslist in 2010 or so. It was easy, then everyone started doing it and it's near impossible to make a living now because the deals are so few and far between. Also, Guitar Center used to haggle, now they don't.

Always i like your video's..but left a little frustrated with this one .....i liked the Mercedes with no apparent damage. But why didn't you take a much closer look. Lift the bonnet up and look underneath at the front....And see why it was there......also what happened to the white Aston Martin with flood damage did you flip it .....🤔

That 2007 Allegro Bay motorhome looks like a 2006 with those headlights. 2007's had the little round headlights. Rust problems I suppose since the carpets look like water damage on the carpets. $17,000 USD? Need to upgrade the TV to the new Digital airwaves and HD etc. Parking levelers need to be checked for operation. They sell for $40k-$50k so after cleaning it all up it might be worth it. Still, every trip to each camp ground is $50 fuel and they have to be at those big flat treeless campgrounds that charge $50 a night. I asked a guy that had one and he said they get about 5 MPG. Then you need to store it at a RV storage facility which costs unless you have a nice big yard. The thing is 36 feet long. A weeks vacation is like going to a resort in price if you have a good time share like Interval International. They have the best price for nice big condos with granite counter tops and in suit laundry. The motor home would be fun though if you are into maintenance in one of those older rigs. Women might be taken a back by the trouble involved but the fresh air and highway driving? Depends on what you like.

I Love the auction content!

Hail damaged rv you'll have to look at the roof. They are plywood with a rubber membrane. Very easy to damage and will be expensive to repair/replace.

I love these kind of videos

Do a video on thar red Chrysler conquest you came across in the beginning of this video. Thanks

I'd want that red Conquest/Station shown in the beginning

Samcrac with the constant videos niceeeee

liked that you posted the prices

What 2 videos. I like it. I hope you make more videos often.

Wow when he said srt 4 my heart dropped. I use to love those growing up omg

How much did the red Mistubishi Starion /Dodge Conquest go for? The one in you first few seconds of video. I owned one years back, loved that car..got in an accident as a kid, car gone

Yes Man , i want more of this!

love these!

I had a 1984 suzuki GS 1150EF.I had the shop come to my apartment building to pick my bike up from the underground parking lot.I told him the two of us could push it out before loading.The guy said its a nissan quarter ton so they can do un derground parking lots.We loaded the bike with lots of room.I heard him going out at the door,he crushed my plastic fairing.They bought the bike from me for good money.The faing cost fifteen hundred for a three thousand dollar bike.

Where I am the salvage process includes an inspection where you have to show you followed the factory repair method with proof, I can't understand how some cars sell so high

it all depends cause in case you start selling these as spare parts things can turn around pretty soon cause who would not buy these parts for half of the Ferrari spare part price. Therefore it is a thin line what to do with such a car. If it is too expensive for you to fix it is cheap enough for another who wants it as a donor car and afterwards for a spare parts sell. He will make a profit at the end only question will be when, but as a donor car to get a car fixed again and selling the rest as spare parts you will have still made a profit even though it takes efforts to strip a car down to parts . But you can also offer what you have left over after fixing your car as a donor car again just without the parts you had needed.

let's see some more trucks for the workin man!

one of my dream cars, a conquest tsi

One issue when you buy salvaged motorcycles is that, once you get it home, you may very well find that the engine ( often the head ) has a nice big crack in it. The engines are often a stressed member so, if the bike gets whacked, that often works its way through to the engine where it bolts to the frame. Then your wallet takes a huge whack.

I love the auction videos!!

Great and interesting video. I would love that Mercedes AMG GTC. Looks fixable. Send it to Alex in Chicago :)

Please do a update video on the white Aston Martin

that srt-4 hurts my soul. OG owner here. and for that sale price I'd take it for parts. reason it has no crash bar is someone installed a BFMIC (big front mount intercooler) which means you have to ditch the crash bar. probably took it off and sold it, since the bumper is in the back seat. also the bumper was cut up; missing the crosshairs, an unfrortunate "mod" some idiots do to it, destroying the value of the bumper in the process.

Wow I gotta come to FL to get a camper. That hail damage one with the salvage title, that's a 25k camper all day. And then a clean title one in that shape about 3-5 years old. Looking at 30-60k any day of the week. So hard to find a good deal on one!!!!! Wife and I have been looking for 4 years now and trying to find a good deal is near impossible!!¡

I have an 1988 Chrysler conquest. 55k miles, looks exactly like that!

Well done, guys!

Best video ever, love the fact you posted the prices

probably pivoting to buying and selling parts is a better biz model than trying to sell entire cas with salvaged titles - jr espouses this and it makes some sense, rich may go this route as well; at any rate it is a good option just to expand rev streams and always have as an option if vehicle numbers don't crunch right - you take your chances on these vehicles so risk is a big part of equation. to do a good and comprehensive repair job on some of these cars you need a lot of overhead and gear (and skills) to tackle all eventualities in house you shouldn't drive an exotic unless you have a net worth of 1m+ just because of cost of maintenance - otherwise forego the status bump and drive a camry or a old truck

remember when a car lost half its value just driving away from the dealership, i miss those days

The way you get hail damage in the Jayco is to have it parked outside IN A FREAKING HAIL STORM!!!

Here I thought I was gonna see a Stradman X Samcrac vid. But whatever... I'm here for it!

Awesome segway into your sponsor!

great video. Thanks

a very entertaining video. learn something new everyday

ZX-6 was one hell of a deal.

I had an insurance company's mechanic say my little dent and scrach was going to be over 3k (mind you my out of pocket was 2.4k so a bit sus) he wanted to change the headlights which tipped me off when he said they were cracked, every make and model of my car looks like that it's not a crack. So i took it to my mechanic, who fixed it for $80, which nowlooks completely brand new. Don't trust insurance "mechanics"

if i was to buy one i would want that kawasaki those are awesome & i had no clue they were selling so cheap lmao if it runs & drives that's an amazing deal

great video, I enjoyed it a lot

That AMG Merc convertible looked pretty tempting

hello sam from greece. watts your opinion on X3s 2007 2.5si?

Stradman: Hold my beer!

Did the aston martin ever get finished? Would love too continue watch the fix 😅