Topic: Noob Team questions
Hi everyone,
A few guys from work and me have been talking about putting together a Lemons team for a while and we're finally getting around to it but want to make sure we don't screw ourselves on the B.S. inspection.
cue the backstory
last year I got in a wreck in my daily and I only have liability insurance so I had to fix the car myself. I needed a whole front clip and the only way to make it not cost more than the car was worth was to buy a parts car. Well I found a super nice car at Co-part that had been rear-ended and got the car for $810 out the door(those fees blow). The car ran and drove, mostly just body and a little frame damage but the alignment was even good and it was in town so I could grab it on my lunch break. I pulled everything off the parts car that I wanted and parked it in the barn until I would hopefully sell the drive train and crush the shell but as of this point I haven't done anything other than the occasional pasture donut in it.
My questions are as follows,
1. How do I determine the price of a clean used hood, core support, front bumper, mishimoto radiator, and a few other goodies that were removed from the car for my daily? Is a screenshot from ebay acceptable or do I have to sell them to myself and make reciepts?
2. How do I determine the value of the wrecked pieces of my car that will be used to make the parts car "whole" again
3. If I took the mishimoto radiator ($330 new) off the parts car and put it on my daily can I buy an eBay special($100) radiator for the race car and count that as selling the radiator off it to fund the newer shittier one or do I have to call that part of my $500 budget?
Thanks in advance,
Cabana Boy Racing