Salvage yards are more than places just to scrap your car, they often auction or sell modern cars that have been involved in an accident or flood that in the right hands be repaired economically and put back on the road. Of course not all salvage projects are the same and history shows many people losing money after buying a money pit. There is a site called salvage spare finder that will allow you to research thousands of salvage cars that are for sale in the UK at any time. It is not as easy to research salvage as normal vehicles because each car will have a unique amount of damage done to it and need its own set of car parts to repair.
This is a large site where in fact none of the salvage cars are being sold by themselves. They are in fact brokers for the several salvage auction yards throughout the country, but an excellent resource to look through and compare makes, models and types of accident damage. Buyers need to be aware of the costs to repair such vehicles, it is true that makes like Mercedes, BMW and Audi are the top make to repair, but it is equally trues that these cars can cost a fortune to repair, especially if some work needs to be done by the local dealer and some used car parts can be very hard to get and a premium needs to be paid.
But in the right hands, many do repair such car salvage an make good money from it.