I'm not a dealer. I'm the guy who stopped overpaying.

I've spent years buying wrecked trucks at Copart and other auctions, fixing them, driving them, and selling them on. It didn't start as a business — it started because paying full retail stopped making sense once I understood what auction vehicles actually cost.

Along the way I've bought vehicles for family and friends, walked people through their first auction, and learned the parts nobody tells you up front: which damage is cosmetic and which is structural, which auctions near you need a dealer license, when it's cheaper to ship than to drive, and how many vehicles you're allowed to move in a year where you live.

That local, practical stuff is where most people get stuck. It's also why I put this together.

What I actually do

I don't restore show cars. I buy vehicles that are economically broken but mechanically sound — the ones where an insurer wrote a cheque because the repair bill beat the book value, not because the truck is finished.

Then I fix what matters, drive it, and move it on when the next one is ready.

Why the numbers work

Insurance totals a vehicle on cost-to-repair versus value, using retail parts and shop labour rates. Do the work yourself, source parts sensibly, and that same truck is worth far more than what it sold for.

You're not getting a bargain because you're clever. You're getting one because the people selling it are measuring by a different yardstick.