Depends on the damage that caused the salvage title. My dad purchased three different salvage-titled vehicles from a guy who specializes in them. He buys them and repairs the work. He won't buy anything with frame/sub-frame damage or anything newer than a 2011 (too many computers). All the vehicles served their purposes. All are still running.
“Depends on the damage that caused the salvage title. My dad purchased three different salvage-titled vehicles from a guy who specializes in them.”
I crashed a car. Technically it was ‘totaled’ because the cost to repair $2500 was higher than the trade-in cost $2,000 (it was an older car). So I kept it, got about $1500 (trade-in minus junkyard price) and fixed it nicely (although with a crappy paint job where the damage was) and drove it until it rusted through - drove like new.
Never had a problem until I tried to buy insurance once from a new company and was told that one of my cars had a “Branded Title” and therefore they had no interest in insuring any of our cars. Go figure.