How do you legally scrap an abandoned car?

I had wondered about asking the manager. Sure would help the legality issue if I had their permission. I'll try calling the local scrap yards and see what they say, thanks.

Follow up question. What's the best way to get it onto a trailer? Basically I'll have to knock the window out to get inside, once I get permission from the manager. Can you shift a car from park to neutral/drive without turning it on since I won't have a key to start it with? (my lack of interest in automotive mechanics is really coming back to bite me haha)

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

A few yards will take a car if it's 10 years or older without a title. check with a couple of yards in your area.
Check out Google for the legal laws about abandoned cars in your state. Might need a release form from your manager /owner of your housing complex also. Your yards make the rules, we do not,,,,

Originally Posted by RoadWarrior

I had wondered about asking the manager. Sure would help the legality issue if I had their permission.

Yes, DEFINITELY ask the manager at the complex FIRST. I say this because after a divorce I had to live in an apartment complex and had a 97 Ram that was a project truck for me (truck didn't run either). Since I no longer had a garage it was just parked outside in the complex parking lot for an entire year. Plus going through a divorce I didn't have the time, money or place to work on it, thus to the average person the truck may have looked abandoned. If someone had come in one day and started messing with it to take it away for scrap I'd have been pissed and someone may have got shot. The apartment complex knew about my truck though from before I moved in so taking a few minutes to check in with the office would help avoid a bad situation.