Les, CoPart is basically a software company. They took the old business of a junkyard and added a layer of software and brought the auction process online. They now run large yards across the country and also work with local yards to be the marketplace for salvaged (and sometimes just used) cars. They have done a good job of building out the software to run the auctions online weekly and like Ebay there is a community of people making money from their marketplace as they buy and restore or part out cars much more efficiently than if you had to drive to a local yard. They will even ship a car to many of the other states efficiently because they are sending multiple cars between their own yards regularly. I think they have a couple of competitors trying to do the same thing LKQ and iaai.com are two.
As for Mk1/Mk2 hybrids like the Cabrio – they probably suffered from their Frankenstein design – sort of like the VW Fox. -Larry From: mk2-16v@googlegroups.com [mailto:mk2-16v@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Les Noriel Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 1:37 PM To: mk2-16v@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [mk2-16v] CoPart I once had a 92 cabriolet. It wasn't my favorite MK1. Although it was probably the least problematic of all the MK1s I'd owned in the past. It just didn't have that tight feel of the Scirocco or the Rabbit. Les On Jul 13, 2016 10:33 AM, "Les Noriel" <les.nor...@gmail.com<mailto:les.nor...@gmail.com>> wrote: I've never heard of Copart. Apparently they're being auctioned. Is it similar to eBay motors? Or is it asset liquidation site? Les On Jul 13, 2016 9:32 AM, "Holland Phillips" <hollandphill...@gmail.com<mailto:hollandphill...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Actually, two of the three are technically Mk1's, since there were no Mk2 > Cabrios. > > ~Holland > > On Jul 13, 2016 09:28, "Larry Velez" <la...@sinu.com<mailto:la...@sinu.com>> > wrote: >> >> Was surprised to see Mk2s on CoPart. >> >> >> >> Figured they would not get such old cars. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MK2-16v" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to >> mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:mk2-16v%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> mk2-16v@googlegroups.com<mailto:mk2-16v@googlegroups.com>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/BY2PR04MB1990132578F744562EA7C52FC0310%40BY2PR04MB1990.namprd04.prod.outlook.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MK2-16v" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:mk2-16v%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to > mk2-16v@googlegroups.com<mailto:mk2-16v@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/CABrbKB%3Dy-zFqwFCNWEhNEs%2BMOu8D1dGfFrzdMRr1qku9BEC5pg%40mail.gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MK2-16v" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To post to this group, send email to mk2-16v@googlegroups.com<mailto:mk2-16v@googlegroups.com>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/CAEpuu2Og9FH4v4SHy%2Bhktey0mQgmvCSpFeXuCE3zW7CWrYX26w%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/CAEpuu2Og9FH4v4SHy%2Bhktey0mQgmvCSpFeXuCE3zW7CWrYX26w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MK2-16v" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mk2-16v@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/BY2PR04MB19905EBB0FD5A30855D83A0CC0310%40BY2PR04MB1990.namprd04.prod.outlook.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
