I live in Austin but I work in San Antonio and I've noticed that there are people towing cars, one or two at a time, south and I'm assuming that they are taking them to Mexico. I had heard years ago that vehicles can be sold to Mexico after they are a certain amount of years old. Does anyone know anything about this? I'm curious to know how old the vehicle has to be to sell it down there. Also, what kind of vehicles are worth the most?
Not much to add except I played in golf tournament with some guys from that big auto auction place up on Beltway 8 west of IAH. They said it was hard to get good deals on older used cars there anymore because exporters were buying them all up to ship south of the border (down Meico way)
I have an employee who used to buy old trucks/suvs at auction and bring them down to Mexico and turn a good profit for his time to go down there. Older trucks are definitely a premium down there.
Yeah yeah it was trucks and 4 wheel drives they were talking about, my other friend wanted a used vehicle to pull his boat and they said,"good luck"
It's when the vehicle is ten years old. That's all I know. A friend of mine was going to sell his truck like that but they(some friends of his) wouldn't take it because it was only eight years old.
I just sold a '93 Nissan truck to a couple of guys doing this. Guys would come to my door all the time while it was in the driveway and ask me if I wanted to sell it. There's wasn't even a sign on it. I even got notes left on it in the parking lot at work from people wanting to buy the thing. Finally I sold it to some guys who just showed up at my door for 1700 bucks - they didn't want to test drive it or anything. The thing ran well, but I was actually a little embarassed to drive it sometimes. Amazing.
I see them all the time on the SW Freeway headed South. They like Ford Ranger trucks, other pickups and school buses. Utility over beauty seems to be the rule. There will usually be several of them towing vehicles in a caravan doing 45 - 50 mph. The buses are usually driven rather than towed.
That explains a lot. We recently sold my wife's Ford Explorer '95 on the first day that we put it on Craig's List. The guy that bought it came, drove it around the block and then made us an offer and then accepted our counter for about $1000 more than what we would have actually taken for it. The funny thing is that he didn't really ask anything about it, other than whether or not we had the title. He was clearly not buying it for himself and I thought that he was probably buying to sell in Mexico. If I wanted to sell my truck in Mexico, how would I go about doing that? Or would I need some sort of license?
