Where to donate an old car?

[taipeitigers.livejournal.com]

I hardly drive so I cannot justify keeping my old car.  The problem is I don't feel comfortable selling on craigslist, etc.  I found some old posts about the car donation dated 2007.  Does anyone have recent experiences with car donation?  Which charity do you recommend?  If I choose to donate my car, are there things I should pay attention to?  

Thanks,

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

last year I donated my car to WBUR and it seemed to have gone fine. There was some paperwork, and they wound up selling the car for scrap which may or may not have been a shame. I got the things I needed for my taxes pretty quickly and they picked up the car when they said they would. I think many charities use the same brokers, so it would probably be similar with another organization.

[grapefruiteater.livejournal.com]

My understanding is that usually donated cars are sold for scrap. The idea is that you could easily do that yourself—the procedure is much the same—but the tax write-off can be worth more to you financially than the $150 bucks the junkyard would give you for your old car.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

You can only get the actual $$ received by the charity for the deduction, rather than the old way of using the KBB value.

[grapefruiteater.livejournal.com]

Well, and it's only worth your while if you itemize your deductions. I wanted to point out that it's standard for donated cars to be sold for scrap. If someone doesn't want that to happen to their car, they should find another way of getting rid of it.