[Porsche-O-Phile]

I think that's a good cause and more importantly it sounds like they didn't misrepresent what they really do.

There have been a rash of "donate your car to help a needy person" charity drives in recent months that have popped up but I've been told on good authority by someone I know affiliated with one of them that such charities are distorting the truth and that donated cars almost NEVER end up directly in the hands of needy people. They're either sold at auction (with the proceeds going into the charity's general operating budget - including administrative costs) or sold for scrap metal and crushed/destroyed (again, with the proceeds going into the charity's budget). At the end of the day the charity does benefit, but it's a bit disingenuous how a lot of them represent themselves... You're not "donating your car to help a needy person", you're donating your car so the charity can make some money off of it (less auction fees and other parties' cut).

This organization sounds like they were pretty up-front about the whole thing (were they?)

Anyway I'm glad they and you both got something out of this.