Scrapping a car with Pull-A-Part. Selling your junk car for cash should be fast and easy. Most importantly, you want to know how much a junk yard will pay for your car. Junk yards pay around $250-$500 for junk cars.

The sale of reusable salvage from old cars is only a small piece of the auto recycling pie. Once cars are crushed, they're shipped off to a recycling center where they are shredded and separated into small pieces, which are then sorted into various metals.