Cash for Junk Cars in Mississippi | Free Towing Statewide
1-800-We-Junk-Cars buys junk, damaged, and non-running vehicles throughout Mississippi. We serve Jackson, Gulfport, Biloxi, Hattiesburg, Southaven, and every county from the Delta to the Gulf Coast. Free towing with same-day or next-day pickup available. We pay cash on the spot when we collect your vehicle. Call today for a guaranteed quote on any car, truck, van, or SUV regardless of condition.
How It Works in Mississippi
Get Your Quote
Call us at 1-800-935-8652 or fill out the online form. Tell us your vehicle’s year, make, model, and condition. We’ll give you a guaranteed quote within minutes. No hidden fees or deductions.
Schedule Free Pickup
Pick a time that works for you. We offer same-day and next-day appointments throughout Mississippi, from the Tennessee border to the Gulf Coast. Our licensed tow operators come to your home, workplace, or wherever your vehicle sits. Towing is always free.
Get Paid Cash
Our driver verifies your vehicle and handles the paperwork. Once everything checks out, you get cash on the spot. The whole pickup takes 15 to 30 minutes. We handle all Mississippi title transfer requirements.
What Is Your Mississippi Junk Car Worth?
Most junk cars in Mississippi sell for $150 to $750, with some trucks and SUVs bringing $800 to $1,500 or more. The humid subtropical climate here speeds up rust and corrosion, especially in coastal areas like Biloxi and Gulfport where salt air eats at metal. Vehicles in the northern hill country and Delta region often have better body condition. Your offer depends on the vehicle’s weight, current scrap metal prices, condition of major components like engines and transmissions, and demand for specific parts in the Mississippi market.
Scrap steel prices set the baseline value for any junk vehicle. When steel prices rise, so do offers for end-of-life cars. Right now, Mississippi scrap yards pay competitive rates due to regional demand from recyclers and salvage operations. The live scrap price tracker below shows current market rates. Heavier vehicles like full-size trucks and SUVs command higher prices based on metal weight alone. Catalytic converters, aluminum wheels, and working parts add value above the scrap baseline.
Mississippi Junk Car Laws and Title Requirements
Last reviewed 2026-10-05 against Mississippi state sources. Fees and forms change; the official links below are authoritative.
| Who issues titles | The Department of Revenue Title Bureau in Clinton. Your county tax collector only takes the application and issues the tag. source |
|---|---|
| Duplicate title form and fee | Form 78-006, Application for Replacement Certificate of Title. $9.00, payable by cashier's, personal or certified check. Mail to P.O. Box 1383. source |
| Can you sell without a title? | Yes. Form 78-031, if the car is ten-plus model years old and lien-free, sold to a licensed parts dealer or processor. source |
| Notary required? | No. Forms 78-006 and 78-031 carry no notary block; DOR's Affidavit forms, 78-008 through 78-023 and 78-907, all do. source |
| Odometer disclosure required | Form 78-015. In a 2026 transfer, 49 CFR 580.17 exempts model year 2010 and older, but 78-031 asks for a reading anyway. source |
| Who keeps the license plates | Neither party. The seller pulls the tag and surrenders it to the county tax collector; Mississippi tags never move to another vehicle. source |
| Deadline to report the sale | No seller notice form exists. Surrendering the tag ends your record; the buyer has 30 working days to tag it. source |
| Abandoned / inoperable vehicle statute | Miss. Code 63-23-3: five days unattended on public property, or forty days left at a dealer, repair shop or wrecker. source |
| Salvage or junk title trigger | An insurer paying a total loss, unless the vehicle is ten-plus years old and worth $1,500 or less. source |
| Catalytic converter sale limits | Miss. Code 97-17-71.3: a detached converter sells only to a registered scrap metal dealer, at that dealer's registered fixed business address. source |
Who Issues a Mississippi Title and Who Only Takes the Paperwork
Every Mississippi certificate of title is printed by the Department of Revenue, at the Title Bureau on Clinton Center Drive in Clinton. Your county tax collector takes the application and issues the tag but cannot produce the title. The title fee is $9.00, and DOR budgets about six weeks for a standard one. Mississippi has required titles on all motor vehicles since 1969; anything older is titled only if the owner asks.
Selling a Junk Car Without the Title
Mississippi does have an age exemption. Under Miss. Code 63-21-39(1)(b), an owner who never received a title, or lost it, may sign a sworn statement that the vehicle is ten or more model years old and lien-free, and hand that over instead. The DOR form is Form 78-031, Certification to Cancel Title for Scrapped, Dismantled or Destroyed Vehicle. It only works for a transfer to a licensed used parts dealer or scrap metal processor, and says the vehicle can never be titled again. The buyer delivers it to DOR within three business days of the transaction under 63-21-39(1)(c), falling to two once DOR stands up its Internet-based system; the form itself still prints an older seventy-two-hour deadline. Where a lien is on record, 63-21-39(1)(a) bars the processor from taking the car until it is released.
The Tag Is How You Close Out the Sale
Mississippi has no notice-of-sale form. DOR’s instruction to a seller is to pull the license plate when the vehicle changes hands and surrender it to the county tax collector, after which your ownership record is no longer current with the state. The plate cannot follow you to another car, because the tag is registered to the vehicle and the owner together, but the unused registration becomes a credit, good in any county, from the first of the next month. The buyer then has thirty full working days to apply for a tag, a window House Bill 310 stretched from seven in 2024.
Abandoned Vehicles Changed on July 1, 2026
Miss. Code 63-23-3 defines an abandoned vehicle three ways: five days unattended on public property; forty days uncollected at a dealer, repair shop or wrecker service; or forty days after a law-enforcement-ordered tow onto someone else’s property. Senate Bill 2848 rewrote what happens next for vehicles towed on or after July 1, 2026. Under the amended 85-7-251 the tower sends a first certified letter through a DOR-approved vendor seven days after the tow and a second at thirty days, and the car can be sold ten days after that letter; 63-23-5(3) makes the vendor post it on a public search site for three weeks beforehand. Chapter 23 sets no private-property clock, so that falls to city ordinances, which differ: Jackson counts a vehicle junked once it has been inoperable for more than 120 days, while Gulfport allows twenty-four hours on a vacant lot inside its listed zoning districts.
Salvage, Rebuilt Titles and Loose Catalytic Converters
A salvage certificate of title is an insurance document. DOR issues it when a carrier pays a total loss, unless the vehicle is ten years old or older and worth $1,500 or less, or needs five or fewer minor component parts. The state will not title or register anything branded Junk, Non-Rebuildable, Certificate of Destruction or Parts Only. If you are rebuilding rather than scrapping, House Bill 1612 raised the Department of Public Safety inspection fee from $75.00 to $125.00 and the VIN verification fee from $25.00 to $50.00 on July 1, 2026. A converter cut off the car falls under Miss. Code 97-17-71.3: it goes only to a registered scrap metal dealer, at that dealer’s registered address, and the seller meets any one of three tests, the plain one being that it came off a vehicle the seller had. EPA-certified reuse converters sit outside the section.
Official Mississippi sources
- Mississippi Department of Revenue – Motor Vehicle Titles
- Mississippi Department of Revenue – Motor Vehicle Frequently Asked Questions
- Mississippi Department of Revenue – Motor Vehicle Form Search
- Mississippi Department of Revenue – Abandoned Vehicles
- Mississippi Department of Revenue – Salvage Vehicles
- Mississippi Secretary of State – Scrap Metal Dealer Registration
Cities We Buy Junk Cars in Mississippi
Mississippi has 82 counties and we work all of them. Jackson sits where I-55 and I-20 cross, with Hinds, Madison and Rankin counties around it and I-220 looping the northwest side. Gulfport anchors the three coastal counties, Hancock, Harrison and Jackson County, strung along I-10 and US 90 from the Louisiana line to Pascagoula. US 49 ties the two together, running from the beach up through the Pine Belt and the Capital region and on toward the Delta. Southaven and Olive Branch in DeSoto County, Hattiesburg in Forrest County, Biloxi on the coast, Meridian out on I-20 at the Alabama line, and Tupelo in the northeast hills are all served areas on those same routes.
One Mississippi habit catches sellers out: several counties keep two courthouses, so the tax collector’s window where you hand back the plate may not be in the county seat you assumed. Hinds County runs offices in Jackson and in Raymond, and Harrison County has them in both Gulfport and Biloxi. Worth a phone call before you drive. Mississippi also stopped issuing safety inspection stickers on July 1, 2015 and does not require emissions testing, and Chapter 63-23 sets no clock at all for a car sitting on private property. Removal comes from the municipal and county side instead, under Miss. Code 21-19-11 and 19-5-105 and the city ordinances built on them, so a dead car tends to stay put until the tag runs out and a code officer notices.
Don’t see your city? We serve all of Mississippi. Call 1-800-935-8652 to confirm pickup at your location.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I sell a junk car in Mississippi without the title?
Yes, if the car is ten or more model years old and carries no lien. Miss. Code 63-21-39(1)(b) lets you sign a sworn statement to that effect instead of handing over a title, on DOR Form 78-031. It only works for a sale to a licensed used motor vehicle parts dealer or scrap metal processor, and the car can never be titled again. Call 1-800-935-8652 with the model year and we will tell you whether Form 78-031 covers your car.
What does a replacement Mississippi title cost and where do I send it?
Nine dollars, and it goes to the state, not your courthouse. Fill out Form 78-006 and send it, with a cashier's, personal or certified check, to Motor Vehicle Services, P.O. Box 1383, Jackson, MS 39215-1383. If a lien still shows on the title or in DOR's system, attach a lien release, or the replacement goes to the lienholder instead; chasing a lender that has closed or changed names is the owner's job. Form 78-026 costs $39.00 and runs in seventy-two hours.
What do I do with my license plate after I sell a car in Mississippi?
Take it off the car and turn it in at your county tax collector's office. Mississippi registers the tag to the vehicle and the owner together, so it cannot be moved to your next car the way plates transfer in some states. Surrendering it is also what removes your name from the state's current record. DOR tells sellers to photocopy both sides of the signed title first, and the unused months come back as a credit good in any county.
My car got towed in Mississippi. How long before the tow company can sell it?
Forty days from the tow at the earliest, and the rules changed this year. For vehicles towed on or after July 1, 2026, Senate Bill 2848 makes the tower send a first certified letter through a DOR-approved vendor postmarked seven days after the tow, post the vehicle on that vendor's public search site, and send a second certified letter at thirty days with the auction details. You then get ten days from that second letter.
Does a Mississippi title transfer have to be notarized?
No. Neither the title assignment nor Form 78-006 nor Form 78-031 has a notary block, and DOR does not ask for one on a straight sale. What DOR does swear are its affidavits: 78-008 Correction, 78-009 Abandonment, 78-010 Sale Under Lien, 78-012 Repossessed, 78-013 Ownership, 78-014 Heirship, 78-023 Corrected Odometer and 78-907 Destruction. A junk car sale needs none of them. Imported vehicles need a notarized bill of sale.
Does Mississippi inspect a car before I can scrap it?
No. Mississippi repealed its Motor Vehicle Safety Inspection Law in 2015, and the sticker requirement ended on July 1, 2015. The state has never required emissions testing either. The only inspection left in this area is the Department of Public Safety check on a rebuilt vehicle, which rose to $125.00 on July 1, 2026, plus $50.00 if a VIN verification is needed.
Jackson anchors our Mississippi routes, with the Gulf Coast from Biloxi to Pascagoula and the northern corridor through Tupelo and Southaven covered weekly. I-55, I-20 and I-10 keep most pickups within a day of dispatch. Humidity is the quiet killer of parked cars here — interiors and wiring go before the body does — so calling sooner protects your quote. County-road and rural pickups are standard work, and the terms never change: free towing, cash when the driver hooks the car.