Cash for Junk Cars in Wyoming | Free Towing Statewide
1-800-We-Junk-Cars buys junk, damaged, and non-running vehicles throughout Wyoming. We serve Cheyenne, Casper, Laramie, Gillette, Rock Springs, and every town in between. Free towing, same-day or next-day pickup, and cash payment when we pick up your vehicle. We buy cars, trucks, SUVs, and vans in any condition across all 23 Wyoming counties.
How Selling Your Junk Car Works in Wyoming
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Call us or fill out the online form with your vehicle’s year, make, model, and condition. We’ll give you an instant cash offer based on current Wyoming market values. Quotes work whether you’re in downtown Cheyenne or on a remote ranch outside Sheridan. No obligation.
Schedule Free Pickup
Accept your offer and pick a time that works for you. We offer same-day service in Cheyenne and Casper, with next-day availability across most Wyoming locations. Our tow truck drivers come to your home, workplace, or wherever the vehicle sits. No charge for towing.
Get Paid Cash
Our driver verifies the vehicle condition matches your description and does a quick inspection. Sign over your title and get your cash on the spot. The whole thing takes fifteen to twenty minutes. No waiting for checks to clear or bank transfers.
What Is Your Wyoming Junk Car Worth?
Junk car values in Wyoming typically range from $150 for complete scrap vehicles to $1,500 or more for newer models with salvageable parts. Wyoming’s dry climate means less rust damage than Midwest states, which often preserves body panels and undercarriage components. Vehicles with working engines, transmissions, or catalytic converters bring higher prices. Popular models like Ford F-150s, Chevy Silverados, and Jeep Wranglers have strong parts demand here because so many are on Wyoming roads. Location affects value slightly—pickups in remote areas may get marginally lower offers due to towing distance.
Scrap steel prices set the baseline value for any junk vehicle. When steel markets are strong, even completely dead cars are worth more as raw material. The average vehicle contains about 2,400 pounds of steel, plus aluminum, copper wiring, and other recyclable metals. Regional scrap rates change based on demand from steel mills and recycling facilities. The tracker below shows today’s scrap metal prices affecting Wyoming junk car values.
Wyoming Junk Car Laws and Title Requirements
Last reviewed 2026-10-05 against Wyoming state sources. Fees and forms change; the official links below are authoritative.
| Who issues titles | Your county clerk in the county seat, one title office in each of the 23 counties. WYDOT issues none over a counter. source |
|---|---|
| State title application form | MV-300A, Application for Certificate of Title and VIN/HIN Inspection Form, revision stamp (01/20). source |
| Duplicate title form and fee | $15.00 under W.S. 31-3-102(a)(vii). No statewide form; each clerk uses its own sworn affidavit, e.g. Laramie County 020-021 (R 4/2023). source |
| Can you sell without a title? | Yes. W.S. 31-2-105(c) skips the bond under $2,500 only with affidavit, notarized bill of sale, dealer value statement and VIN inspection. source |
| Notary required? | Yes. W.S. 31-2-104(a) requires the title assignment to be signed before a notarial officer and acknowledged. source |
| Odometer disclosure required | Yes, on the title under W.S. 31-2-103(a)(v). For 2026 transfers 49 CFR 580.17 exempts model year 2010 and older. source |
| Who keeps the license plates | You do. W.S. 31-2-214(a): registration expires on transfer and the seller removes the plates immediately. source |
| Deadline to report the sale | None for the seller. The buyer has 45 days to title and register, or 60 days on a conforming bill of sale. source |
| Abandoned / inoperable vehicle statute | W.S. 31-13-101(a)(x): 24 hours on a highway, five days elsewhere after notice, 30 days on private property, ten in a tow yard. source |
| Salvage or junk title trigger | Damage over 75% of actual retail cash value. Exempt: Wyoming-titled vehicles over eight years of service, commercial vehicles, trailers. source |
Which Wyoming Office Actually Issues the Title
WYDOT Motor Vehicle Services administers titling but issues no titles to the public. WYDOT states that Wyoming titles and lien filings are processed through the local county clerk office in the county seat of the county of residence. Plates and registration are a separate counter run by the county treasurer. The state form is MV-300A, Application for Certificate of Title and VIN/HIN Inspection Form, revision stamp (01/20).
The Notary Step Wyoming Does Not Waive
W.S. 31-2-104(a) requires the assignment, warranty and statement of liens endorsed on a Wyoming title to be signed and dated before a notarial officer and acknowledged. Clear the lender first: a lien on the face has to be released before you hand the car over. A knowingly false statement on a titling document is a felony under W.S. 31-4-102. W.S. 31-2-107(a) accepts an electronically signed title without notarization on the salvage-brand path, and an amendment effective 1 July 2027 extends electronic signing to ordinary transfers.
Replacing a Lost Wyoming Title
There is no statewide duplicate-title form. W.S. 31-2-105(a) sends you to the county clerk that issued the original, and each clerk publishes its own sworn affidavit: the Laramie County Duplicate Certificate of Title Application & Affidavit is stamped 020-021 (R 4/2023) and asks for the title number, VIN, make and year. W.S. 31-3-102(a)(vii) sets a certificate of title, original or duplicate, at $15.00 statewide. The statute lets any one listed owner apply, but the Natrona County Clerk requires every owner named on the title to sign. A lienholder staying on the new title signs or sends a letterhead letter.
Selling a Car You Never Got a Title For
W.S. 31-2-105(b) lets the clerk issue a title on a sworn Wyoming Affidavit of Vehicle Ownership, MV147 (8/12), a law-enforcement VIN inspection and a WYDOT title search on form MV-220. The default is an indemnity bond for twice retail value. Subsection (c) drops it under $2,500.00, but only against four documents: that affidavit, a notarized bill of sale, a certified written value statement from a licensed Wyoming dealer, and the VIN inspection. W.S. 31-2-111’s “junk” brand is no owner’s shortcut: only a towing and recovery operator may apply for one, to move the car to a facility licensed under W.S. 31-13-114.
Abandoned, Inoperable and Four-or-More
W.S. 31-13-101(a)(x) defines four categories: 24 hours on a highway after an officer posts a notice of intent to impound; five days on other public or private property after that notice; 30 days unattended on private property without consent; and ten days in a tow yard after the owner removes personal property. Only the last two become a “junk vehicle” under paragraph (xi), and only under $2,000 in fair market value. W.S. 31-13-105 separately bars keeping four or more presumed-abandoned vehicles visible from a highway for 30 consecutive days, exempting enclosed garages. A city ordinance supersedes the act only where the two conflict (W.S. 31-13-103), and both of ours reach further: Cheyenne gives seven calendar days with no garage exception, while Casper permits storage, repair and even stripping inside an accessory garage building, but only the lot owner’s or occupier’s own vehicle, and not as a business.
Plates, Odometer and Existing Brands
W.S. 31-2-214(a) expires the registration on transfer and tells the owner to remove the plates immediately. You keep them; within 60 days the county treasurer can move that registration number to a replacement vehicle. The buyer has 45 days to title and register, or 60 days on a conforming bill of sale. Wyoming carries the federal odometer statement under W.S. 31-2-103(a)(v); for a 2026 transfer 49 CFR 580.17 requires it only for model year 2011 and newer. W.S. 31-2-109 makes you disclose any brand, and W.S. 31-2-107(d) carries an out-of-state salvage, junk, scrap, nonrepairable, rebuilt or flood brand onto every later Wyoming title regardless of years of service.
Official Wyoming sources
- WYDOT — Titles, Plates and Registration
- Application for Certificate of Title and VIN/HIN Inspection Form (MV-300A)
- Wyoming County Clerks — Vehicle Title Information
- WYDOT — Abandoned Vehicles
- Wyoming Statutes, Title 31 — Motor Vehicles
- Wyoming Statutes, Title 33 — Professions and Occupations (ch. 18, Junk Dealers)
Cities We Buy Junk Cars in Wyoming
Wyoming splits into basins, and the drive between them is the whole story. Southeast, Cheyenne sits in Laramie County where I-25 and I-80 cross, the busiest corner of the state for us. Due north on I-25, Casper anchors Natrona County on the North Platte and reaches the oilfield country beyond it on US 20/26 and WYO 220. We also buy in Laramie up in the Laramie Valley, Gillette out in the Powder River Basin coal country, Sheridan under the east face of the Bighorns, and Rock Springs in the Green River Basin on the long I-80 run west. A flatbed reaches all four, dispatched from whichever hub is nearer, so name the town and we will tell you the day.
Your title office is in a county seat and nowhere else, across 23 counties, so a Sublette County seller drives to Pinedale and a Johnson County seller to Buffalo. Distance is priced into Wyoming law itself: the reimbursement schedule in W.S. 31-13-111(g) allows a towing cost of $6.00 for every mile the vehicle is towed, or $100.00, whichever is greater. That is the state conceding how far apart its yards are. Tell us the nearest town and highway when you call, because on a Wyoming pickup the haul leg is the variable, not the scrap price.
Don’t see your city? We serve all of Wyoming—call 1-800-935-8652 to confirm pickup at your location.
Frequently Asked Questions — Selling a Junk Car in Wyoming
Is there one statewide form for replacing a lost Wyoming title?
No. W.S. 31-2-105(a) points you at the county clerk that issued the original, and each of the 23 clerks publishes its own sworn affidavit rather than a common state document. Laramie County's is numbered 020-021 (R 4/2023) and asks for the title number, VIN, make and year. The fee is $15.00 statewide under W.S. 31-3-102(a)(vii). The statute says any one listed owner may apply, but the Natrona County Clerk in Casper requires every owner on the title to sign, so check your county first.
What happens to my plates and registration when the car goes on the truck?
The plates come off and stay with you. W.S. 31-2-214(a) expires the registration at the moment ownership transfers and directs the original owner to remove the plates immediately. Nothing has to be surrendered. If you buy a replacement within 60 days, the county treasurer, not the county clerk, can move that registration number across and credit the unused portion of the fees you already paid.
How long can a dead car sit before Wyoming calls it abandoned?
On private property with no consent, 30 days under W.S. 31-13-101(a)(x)(C); on a highway, 24 hours after an officer tapes a notice of intent to impound to the glass. Towns may be stricter where they conflict. Cheyenne reaches a car with one flat tire after seven calendar days and writes in no garage exception. Casper lets you store, repair or strip a vehicle inside an accessory garage building, but only your own vehicle, and not as a business.
Can I cut the catalytic converter off and sell it separately in Wyoming?
Yes, but the yard has to write you down. Wyoming has no converter-specific statute. It does have W.S. 33-18-101, which makes anyone buying second-hand or broken metal a junk dealer, and W.S. 33-18-102(a), which requires a book entry at the time of each transaction: a description of the goods, your name and residence, and either your vehicle's plate number or your federal or state photo identification. The $50 household-item exemption does not reach a converter.
My pickup is a 2007. Does the odometer line still have to be filled in?
No. Wyoming prints the federal odometer statement on the title under W.S. 31-2-103(a)(v), but the exemptions live in 49 CFR 580.17. A vehicle of model year 2010 or earlier is exempt once ten years have passed, which in 2026 means all of them. Model year 2011 and newer stays disclosable until 2031 and beyond, so a 2015 sedan still needs the reading.
Someone dumped a car on my land. How do I get it off?
Start the 30-day clock. A vehicle left unattended on private property without your consent is abandoned after 30 days under W.S. 31-13-101(a)(x)(C). To have police remove it, W.S. 31-13-104(c) requires your written request on a department form. To sell it yourself, WYDOT's steps are a title search, certified-mail notice to the owner and any lienholder at least ten days before sale, the same notice to the county sheriff, and publication once weekly for two weeks. Call 1-800-935-8652 if you would rather we quote it.