Getting your car appraised!!!

I know a guy that owns a car appraisal company, he's been in business for years, actually getting ready to retire. He told me there are guidelines set by the appraisal industry that all professional appraisers use to rate a car and give it a score, and they look at everything inside and out. He explained to me how they do it a couple years ago, I'll try and explain it the way he explained it to me, hope I remembered it correctly.

lets say they look over your car and give it a score of 75. Then they will look at what cars like yours have sold for at auction recently, (like BJ) and compare the scores.

Lets say one sold at auction for lets say $20,000 and had a score of 100, another sold for $19,000 and had a score of 95, another sold for $17,000 and had a score of 85, they will use that to value your car. Your car scored 75 so they will take that and compare it to the ones that sold at auction and figure around $15,000 then they look at other points of the car and will usually write it up with a value of $14,000-$16,000 and will probably ad some notes to cover modification values.

The more receipts you have the better because he has more to work with to add value to the scored value but not completely necessary for an appraisal.