[Canucklehead]

i've bought cars with the salvage title and the only problem i had was that it had to be inspected before it was registered. Other then that it was fine. Insurance companys look in their books and if the repairs are worth more then the car, then they write it off. For alot of these older cars they claim for new parts which skyrocket the estimate. Sometimes you can buy the slavage and fix it with used parts for half the price. In most cases they don't look at collector value.