What should I pay for that wrecked car?
Paste the listing. You get the most you should pay, a parts list you can buy from, the hours that are yours and the jobs that are a shop's, the tax and title nobody mentions, and a plain buy, caution or walk.
Your address is for telling you when it opens. Nothing else, and never sold.
See an example answer - a made-up car, worked out for real.
How the number is built
- Parts, three ways. Budget, US parts, or factory - with buy links, and the price switches with the build.
- Your hours, counted honestly. Book time times the pace a first rebuild really goes, with airbags, frame and calibration work split out and priced at a shop.
- The costs people forget. Sales tax, the rebuilt inspection, title and plates for your state, auction fees, and the broker fee if you have no dealer license.
- A walk that means it. Flood, fire, a bent structure, airbags on a cheap car, or a car your state will not title: those end the conversation, not soften it.
What it is not
It is an estimate from photos and listing text, not an inspection. Nobody has seen the car. It tells you what the numbers say; you decide what to buy, and you own that decision.