My husband was in a car accident, and we don't have collision coverage, so we are now the proud owners of a fucked up coupe. The passenger side door is crushed in, now rusting on the outside, and the electronics on that door no longer work (i.e., can't unlock it or roll down the window). About a foot of the front area under the headlight fell off. The car still runs, and after driving it several times it seems to be perfectly fine mechanically, so the damage is all to the body and door. But it's a coupe with a broken passenger door, so it's essentially a one-person vehicle unless someone wanted to climb in through the driver's side and ignore common sense safety by riding next to an inoperable exit.
We already wanted to get rid of one of our two cars, and we're wondering if anyone has any clever options for what to do. Right now we're of three minds:
1. I see other people driving cars in similar or worse shape (our state has no safety inspections, so you can drive whatever the hell you want here); maybe someone single who is cheap/desperate who doesn't have passengers would actually buy it as a commuter to get to their retail job? The KBB value without all the damage is about 4k, so I was thinking of maybe just throwing it on craigslist for 1k to see if there are any takers.
2. Selling it to a junk yard to part out. I figure they would give us a few hundred tops, but it might be easiest.
3. I have heard of people parting their own cars out to sell pieces on ebay, but that seems like it would take a lot of time. Has anyone here ever done that?