Beware of some used cars. In the olden days, if you had a wreck, the insurance company would issue a “Salvage title” and send the auto to the wreckers in Southern Missouri.
There, they would splice several wrecked cars together, clean them, repaint them, roll back the odometer, then send the car down into Arkansas where for $50 dollars, they could get a new clean title showing the car had never been wrecked or abused, and “Only driven to church on Sunday by the salesman’s grandmother.”
It was years before we found out this scam. Even “brand new” cars often showed repainting and bondo in some areas.
“Beware of some used cars. In the olden days, if you had a wreck, the insurance company would issue a “Salvage title” and send the auto to the wreckers in Southern Missouri.”
Nearly all used and new dealers today use Carfax and it list if the car was ever wrecked. A private buyer can also go online at Carfax and type in the vin to see if it was ever wrecked or had service issues (lemon)