An old, yellow VW Bug convertible was recently donated to Habitat for Humanity. This car donation is for the donor’s local habitat in Honolulu, Hawaii. The generous donor purchased the 1975 Volkswagen Beetle after her last child left for college. She lovingly named her car ‘Baby’.
Just recently we had a beautiful 1961 Jaguar Mark IX donate to American Cancer Society. This classic Jaguar came to us from a generous donor in Laguna Beach, California. You can see from the picture that this car lived a privileged life in sunny southern California. With just over 27,000 miles, this car was kept in great running shape and was even treated to a new engine back in the early 1990’s. Due to the donor taking great care of this car it has held its value over the last 56 years. We expect it to earn quite a nice car donation for the American Cancer Society.
The first quarter of 2017 has seen average used car market prices soften and continue to drop both month to month as well as year over year. In fact “Auto Remarketing Magazine” stated in their April 1st Issue that it was just the 2nd time in the last 20 years that used car prices declined in the month of February.
The decline was counter to the 1-percent increase expected for the month and marked just the second time in the past 20 years prices fell in February. -Auto Remarketing Magazine
Used cars are displayed on a sales lot on June 9, 2011 in San Francisco, California. -Getty Images
This is not the first MG we have received as a donation but it is one of the better models we have seen. It is the fourth MG donated so far this year and also the oldest aside of a 1952 though that was a kit car and not an original. This green roadster only has 3,505 miles which is incredible for a 1977. We do not know much about this MG’s previous life but the donor is from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Presumably, the car spent most of it’s time there cruising with the top down catching the breeze off Lake Michigan.
The ’77 MG has been donated to Michigan Radio, a part of the NPR news network. Unfortunately, University of Michigan basketball suffered a tough loss last night in the NCAA tournament. Hopefully seeing a donation like this one will help ease the pain.
Last month a classic car was donated to one of our top charity partners Car Talk. Car Talk is an Award-winning radio show broadcast weekly on NPR stations. This 1963 Ford Galaxie is the oldest car we received for the popular show focusing on automobiles and automobile repair. In addition, the particular station this car was donated to is KNKX of Tacoma, Washington thru the Friends of 88.5 FM non-profit organization.
