The bottom line: To sell a junk car in Arkansas, sign the title over and give the buyer the required bill of sale, Form 10-313. No notary, emissions test or safety inspection is needed.
Without a title, you can sell only a car at least 25 years old that goes for scrap, and a law enforcement officer must check and sign the bill of sale. For a newer car, replace the title first on Form 10-381 for $10. It takes at least three weeks, or three business days in person in Little Rock for $10 more.
File the Notice of Transfer of Ownership online or by mail to release your liability. There is no deadline, but the state has no record of the sale until you file. Keep your plate.
In Arkansas, the typical offer in our data for a junk car 10 years or older is $473.
What would buyers pay for your junk car in Arkansas?Fill in one form, including whether you have the title, and see which buyers make an offer.
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Offer amount 30% 5/5
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Quote speed 20% 5/5
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Pickup speed 20% 4/5
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Vehicle acceptance 15% 5/5
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Process ease 15% 5/5
- Buys any car in any condition, running or not
- Free towing, with no fees taken off the offer
- You can cancel before pickup at no cost
- Pays by check on the spot at pickup
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Offer amount 30% 5/5
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Quote speed 20% 5/5
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Pickup speed 20% 5/5
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Vehicle acceptance 15% 4/5
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Process ease 15% 4/5
- Buys damaged cars, even ones that can't be driven
- The engine and transmission must still be in
- Free towing, included with every offer
- Picks up within 48 hours, sometimes the same day
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Offer amount 30% 4.5/5
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Quote speed 20% 5/5
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Pickup speed 20% 4/5
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Vehicle acceptance 15% 4/5
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Process ease 15% 2/5
- Owned by Copart, the salvage auction company
- Buys almost any vehicle with a motor, running or not
- Free towing, and it handles the title transfer
- Hands you a check at pickup, or mails it
Automated assistant: general info, not legal advice
Answers come from our state paperwork data and published guides. Confirm anything binding with your state DMV.
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How Do You Sell a Junk Car in Arkansas?
Six steps in all, from the first quote to the day after the truck leaves.
Step 1: Get quotes from several buyers
A quote form takes the year, make and model, the mileage, your ZIP code, and whether the car starts and drives. It also asks what is wrong with the car.
Some forms want the VIN. You will find it on the plate at the base of the windshield, driver’s side, and printed on the title and the registration card.
The offer is built from your answers, so state every missing part and every fault. A car described as complete and then found stripped gets a lower figure at pickup.
Get three quotes or more.
Step 2: Check your paperwork
Have the paper title and a photo ID in the same name ready for the driver. A title in someone else’s name, or one with a lender still listed, has to be fixed before the pickup is booked.
- Title required to sell: yes.
- Bill of sale: required.
- Odometer disclosure: required for model year 2011 and newer vehicles, with model year 2010 and older, trailers, and vehicles rated over 16,000 lbs exempt.
Our bill of sale generator fills in a bill of sale for you if you would rather not print the state’s.
Every form you might need
With the title in hand, a junk sale in Arkansas uses two of these. The rest apply when a document is missing or the car was never put in your name.
Bill of sale
Use: Form 10-313
Separate odometer form: none, odometer disclosure is built into Form 10-313 (Bill of Sale/Odometer Disclosure Statement).
Notice of transfer
Use: Notice of Transfer of Ownership of a Motor Vehicle
Takes your name off the car after the sale. When and how.
Selling without a title
Only for a car that meets the state’s conditions. What Arkansas allows.
Inherited vehicle
Moves a late owner’s car into your name. The estate route.
Step 3: Accept an offer and book the pickup
You accept on the buyer’s site or on the phone. The buyer passes the job to a tow company near you, and that company contacts you to agree on a pickup window of a few hours.
Say at that call if the car sits on soft ground, up a narrow driveway, or anywhere a flatbed cannot back up to. The person on the title signs and takes the money, so plan for that person to be at the car.
Step 4: Get the car ready for the tow truck
Move whatever is parked in front of the car and leave the driver a straight line to it.
Go through the glove box, the console, the door pockets, the trunk and the space under the seats. A toll tag or a garage remote left in the car is gone once the truck leaves.
Put every key you still have with the title. Plates stay with you. Take them off before the truck arrives.
Step 5: Sign the title and take payment
The driver looks the car over against what you put on the form. Then you fill in the seller’s part of the title, sign it, and hand it to the driver.
You are paid before the car is winched on.
Keep the driver’s paperwork and look in your email afterwards, since a buyer may send the receipt that way. The notice you file asks who bought the car: give the company named in your offer confirmation and its address, not the tow driver.
Where the buyer records the transfer: any Arkansas state revenue office, or online through the MyDMV portal.
Step 6: Report the sale and deal with the plates
Report the sale to the state as soon as the car has gone: File online through MyDMV, or send the Notice of Transfer of Ownership to the Office of Motor Vehicle Records Unit in Little Rock, by mail or in person.
- Deadline: no deadline; the notice is optional.
- If you skip it: the sale is not on the state's record until the notice is filed.
- Plates: keep the plate or assign it to a replacement vehicle.
- Plate transfer fee: $1.
Cancel the insurance last, after the car has gone and the notice is filed. If you cancel earlier and the pickup is postponed, the car sits in your driveway uninsured.
Arkansas Junk Car Checklist
Before the Sale
At Pickup
After the Sale
What Is Your Junk Car Worth in Arkansas?
The offer on a typical Arkansas junk car is $473 (cars 10 years and older, 60 offers, ranked 35 of 44 states). Across the country, half of all offers on old cars fall between $375 and $1,075.
Cars 15 years and older in Arkansas are offered $315, and 12% of Arkansas requests get no offer at all, from our own quote data.
Whether the engine starts is the next thing. When the car does not start, the offer moves by about -46% compared with a similar car that drives, age and mileage matched. Tell the buyer whether it rolls as well, because a car with locked brakes takes longer to load.
Nothing moves the offer more than the catalytic converter. The offer moves by about -57% for a car whose converter is gone, set against a matching car that still has it, age and mileage matched. If it is missing, say so on the form.
A car that will not start needs a few extra details on the form, and our guide to selling a non-running car lists them.
Companies That Buy Junk Cars in Arkansas
Under each card is a real offer screen from that buyer, so you know what its quote page looks like before you start.
Peddle
Peddle buys junk, salvage, and non-running cars
- Buys junk cars anywhere in Arkansas
- Instant offer on screen once you describe the car
- Takes damaged cars and cars past repair
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Offer amount 30% 5/5
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Quote speed 20% 5/5
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Pickup speed 20% 4/5
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Vehicle acceptance 15% 5/5
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Process ease 15% 5/5
Peddle takes cars with a blown engine, a failed transmission or crash damage.
Wheelzy
Wheelzy buys cars in any condition, running or not
- Branches in 16 Arkansas cities, Benton to Texarkana
- Free pickup from any Arkansas address
- No dealer, title-transfer or removal fees in Arkansas
- Cashier's check at pickup, cashable the same day
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Offer amount 30% 5/5
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Quote speed 20% 5/5
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Pickup speed 20% 5/5
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Vehicle acceptance 15% 4/5
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Process ease 15% 4/5
Get the quote from Wheelzy first if your title is missing, because it helps with replacement titles. It also takes cars that have not moved in years.
CashForCars
CashForCars is owned by Copart and buys cars in any condition
- Yards in Fayetteville and Little Rock
- Offer in 60 seconds, from the form or one phone call
- Free towing when it comes for the car
- Takes cars, trucks, SUVs, motorcycles, RVs and boats
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Offer amount 30% 4.5/5
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Quote speed 20% 5/5
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Pickup speed 20% 4/5
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Vehicle acceptance 15% 4/5
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Process ease 15% 2/5
CashForCars belongs to Copart, and the cars it buys go to Copart’s auction yards.
Collect all three numbers even if the first one looks fine. When two or more buyers quote the same car on the same day through our own quote form, the highest and lowest offers are typically $314 apart. The top offer is at least double the bottom one in 39% of those pairs.
If the car still starts and drives and has a clean title, a private sale usually pays more than a junk buyer. Our guide to selling a car privately in Arkansas covers the paperwork.
Can You Sell a Junk Car Without a Title in Arkansas?
Arkansas allows a sale without the title in one case: the vehicle must have been in existence for at least 25 years with no certificate of title available and be sold for scrap, dismantling or destruction; otherwise apply for a replacement title, or a bonded title if the title was never in your name.
- The law: Arkansas Code § 27-14-913 (scrap or dismantle exception) and § 27-14-409 (bonded title).
- What you need: A bill of sale verified and signed by a law enforcement officer for 25+ year scrap vehicles, or Form 10-345 Statement of Facts for a bonded title.
That leaves three ways forward.
Option 1: Use the state’s scrap route. It only works for a car that meets the conditions, and not every buyer takes a car this way. Ask before you accept an offer.
Option 2: Get the title first. Apply for a replacement title and sell with it. Every buyer can then quote the car.
Option 3: Sell the car as parts. No title changes hands, because the car itself is not transferred. Count on a slower sale.
Getting a Replacement Title in Arkansas
What a replacement title takes in Arkansas:
- Application: Form 10-381
- Where to submit: any Arkansas state revenue office, or by mail to Department of Finance and Administration, Special License Unit, P.O. Box 1272, Little Rock, AR 72203
- Fee: $10
- Processing time: a minimum of three weeks
- Rush option: yes, in person at the Central Revenue Office in Little Rock, ready for pickup in 3 business days
Send the application in and get your quotes the same week, since one does not hold up the other.
If a lender still holds the title
A car with a lien on the title cannot be sold to a junk buyer until the lender clears it. How that is done in Arkansas: the lienholder completes Form 10-315, the Official Release of Lien.
Get the payoff amount before you collect quotes. If the loan is larger than the offer, the difference comes out of your pocket.
If your title is electronic
Electronic titles: Arkansas does not offer electronic titles to private owners.
Replacement available online: no.
If the car is titled in another state
A car kept in Arkansas on another state’s title can be junked here without retitling it. It must be in your name, and the signing instructions come from the state that issued it.
If that title is lost, the state that printed it is the one that replaces it, on its own form and at its own fee. Arkansas has no record of the car and cannot issue one.
Selling a Junk Car That Isn’t in Your Name
The buyer pays whoever is named on the title, so the car has to be moved into your name before you ask for quotes.
The owner has died. The Arkansas paperwork for an inherited car: Form 10-306 (Affidavit of Inheritance of a Motor Vehicle), or Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration if probated.
Someone gave you the car. The rule for a gift in Arkansas: Both the donor and the recipient sign the affidavit. The donor must have paid sales or use tax when they bought the vehicle and have registered it in their own name.
A stranger’s car was abandoned on your property. You cannot sign over a car you never owned, so it goes through Arkansas’s abandoned vehicle process first, and that takes time.
Local Dismantlers vs Online Buyers in Arkansas
Selling to a local yard
A yard in Arkansas prices the car by its weight in scrap steel, and that price changes with the metal market. You call each yard yourself and describe the car each time.
Some yards expect you to bring the car in, and some take the tow out of the offer. Get that settled on the first call, not when the truck is in the driveway.
Selling to an online buyer
An online buyer gives its number before anyone has seen the car, and the tow is included in it. It also prices the parts it can sell on, not only the scrap weight.
Three online quotes take minutes on a phone. A yard quote takes a call each, and the yard can revise it once the car is on the scale.
Our guide to how online buyers work out an offer goes through what moves the number.
When selling it yourself makes sense
A car with a working engine can bring more from a mechanic or a hobbyist than from any scrap buyer. That sale takes weeks rather than days, and the buyer has to bring a trailer.
Meet in a public place, and take no payment you cannot check on the spot.
Storing a Junk Car in Arkansas
A car waiting on a replacement title has to sit somewhere for a few weeks. Cities and counties set their own rules on a car that does not run, and a homeowners association can add its own.
Keep the car on your own property and out of the street. A cover or a spot behind the home keeps the neighbors from reporting it, and keeps the rain out of a car with a broken window.
Our guide on how to store a junk car covers the ground rules.
Arkansas Motor Vehicle Resources
Every Arkansas rule on this page can be checked against the state’s own pages.
- Motor vehicle agency: Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, Office of Motor Vehicle (DFA)
- Selling a vehicle: Arkansas DFA, MyDMV
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Frequently Asked Questions
How long does it take to sell a junk car in Arkansas?
With the title in hand, a few days from the first quote to the truck, and the tow company names the day once you accept. Without it, the replacement wait comes first.
Does anything have to be notarized to junk a car in Arkansas?
Arkansas does not require the title assignment to be notarized.
Bill of sale notarization: not required.
Does a junk car need an emissions test in Arkansas?
Emissions test to sell: no testing required.
Do the plates release me from liability in Arkansas?
Plates and liability: no, you must also file the Notice of Transfer of Ownership to release liability.
Can I junk a car with expired registration in Arkansas?
Yes. The registration only matters for driving, and a junk car leaves on a flatbed. The buyer checks the title, and that is what shows the car is yours.
What happens to a junk car after it is sold in Arkansas?
The truck takes it to a salvage yard or an auction lot. Parts that can be sold again come off, and the shell is crushed and sold as scrap steel.
What if the junk car offer changes when the driver arrives in Arkansas?
Nothing obliges you to accept the lower number. Until you sign the title the car is still yours, so you can send the truck away and use one of your other quotes.
What if I lost the keys to my junk car in Arkansas?
Lost keys do not stop the pickup, because the driver winches the car on. Say so on the quote form.
Should I repair the car or junk it in Arkansas?
Compare three numbers: the repair estimate, the best junk offer, and what buyers would offer for the car once repaired. If the repair costs more than it adds, junk the car.
A car with a sound engine or wheels somebody wants may bring more when sold for parts.
Article Update History
Arkansas junk car offers now come from Sell Car Advisor quote data.
Originally posted and shared with our readers.
Sources
Duplicate Title Application Form
"Form 10-381" Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
Release of Liability Form Name
"Notice of Transfer of Ownership of a Motor Vehicle" Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
"required" Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
"Form 10-313" Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
"required for model year 2011 and newer vehicles, with model year 2010 and older, trailers, and vehicles rated over 16,000 lbs exempt" Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
"A bill of sale verified and signed by a law enforcement officer for 25+ year scrap vehicles, or Form 10-345 Statement of Facts for a bonded title" Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
Inherited Vehicle Title Transfer Form
"Form 10-306 (Affidavit of Inheritance of a Motor Vehicle), or Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration if probated" Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
How to Complete a Gift Transfer
"Both the donor and the recipient sign the affidavit. The donor must have paid sales or use tax when they bought the vehicle and have registered it in their own name" Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
"yes" Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
How to File Release of Liability
"File online through MyDMV, or send the Notice of Transfer of Ownership to the Office of Motor Vehicle Records Unit in Little Rock, by mail or in person." Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
"any Arkansas state revenue office, or online through the MyDMV portal" Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
Penalty for Not Filing Release of Liability
"the sale is not on the state's record until the notice is filed" Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
Conditions to Sell Without Title
"the vehicle must have been in existence for at least 25 years with no certificate of title available and be sold for scrap, dismantling or destruction; otherwise apply for a replacement title, or a bonded title if the title was never in your name" Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
"the lienholder completes Form 10-315, the Official Release of Lien" Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
Emissions Testing Required to Sell?
"no testing required" Accessed Sep. 10, 2026
Junk Car Value Statistics, Sell Car Advisor
"On this page: 6 figures from 17,628 instant cash offers, and 4 figures from same-day quotes by several buyers" Accessed Oct. 19, 2026
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