Put Out to Pasture  Salvage Car ready for Auction  Our family
listens to a lot of public radio and we even have three local
stations to choose from. While I'm not a big fan of pledge
drives, I understand the need for them. Recently, I've heard
public radio (and TV) stations promoting Car Donation programs
as another form of listener support. It just happens that we had
an older car that was, ahem, 'fully depreciated' and worth
almost nothing as a trade-in. So, we gave our old car to our
local public radio station and 'recycled' it into a charitable
donation.  Why did I donate our old car? It's simple: the car is
twenty years old with 163K miles, it has a salvage title due to
a minor accident (repair costs were higher than the retail
value) and it's a two door hatchback which makes using a car
seat very challenging. All of those factors added up to a car
with little practical or monetary value to us. While I owned the
car for many years I had no qualms about sending it along to
parts unknown.  But, funny enoug