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That Copart yard is 15 minutes from my house. But, in Texas to meet the state's requirement for a salvage title the cost of the repairs (without painting) has to exceed the pre-accident value of the car. In this case the car was valued at 90k and the repairs at 54k (seller's numbers). Also it was not sold by an insurance company who would have probably declared it a salvage after paying off the owner and taking title. So since the private owner didn't declare it salvage it was a clean title sale. It could have been a repossession sold by the lender, who more commonly auction damaged cars with clean titles to recoup more of their loan money.
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