Sell your car in Casper: running, wrecked or won't start
You don't have to guess where the rig count goes next. Get a cash offer online for a truck or car you no longer need, and we pick it up free from your driveway. Below is the Casper side of a sale: which county counter takes which paper, and what city code allows for a car that no longer runs.
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How Casper's junk vehicle notice works
- Check the date on it. The city tries certified mail or hand delivery and, where it can, puts the notice on the windshield. You have 10 days from the notice to fix the problem, and each day it goes on after that is a separate violation.
- Don't just move it to another yard. Once you've been notified, moving the car to other private property where storage isn't allowed, or onto public property to store it, is a misdemeanor on its own.
- Disagree? Ask for a hearing in writing. Send the request to the city clerk (City Hall, 200 N. David St., Room 104) inside that window, naming the property, your name and address, and your interest in the car. Without one, the city can remove the car and charge the cost to the owner, the land, or both. Code Enforcement takes questions at 307-235-8254.
Where we pick up around Casper
Addresses in town, in Vista West and Bar Nunn, and up the driveways of Casper Mountain are scheduled the same week, across Casper's 82601, 82604 and 82609. We also pick up in Evansville and Mills. Glenrock, over the county line in Converse County, is a regular stop too, and so are Midwest and Edgerton, which take one phone call and a day's notice.
Parked on a snow route? When four or more inches of snow is predicted, the city can declare a snow emergency, and you get four hours to move off the signed snow routes. A car still there during the emergency gets a $50 ticket, so move one that barely starts before the forecast turns.
Where the paperwork goes in Casper
What most people call the Wyoming DMV is two county offices here. Titles and liens go to the Natrona County Clerk's title office, Room 19 at 200 N. Center St. (307-235-9211). Plates and registration come from the County Treasurer's motor vehicle office in Room B32 of the same building (307-235-9370). The WYDOT office at 800 Bryan Stock Trail handles driver's licenses, not titles.
The title office posts its forms online, including a bill of sale, a lien release form and a power of attorney, and asks you to download and fill them in before you come in. The county building is open weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Cash for your car in Casper
Inside city limits, a car that has quit running can't just sit in the yard. Casper's code (Section 8.36.010) makes any wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicle a public nuisance, and code enforcement says every car on a property has to run, with only one allowed to be unlicensed. Tires, auto parts and batteries left outside count as junk too. The main exception is your own car, kept and worked on entirely inside a garage, and not as a business.
We make cash offers on cars that don't start, were wrecked, or have sat unregistered, and the pickup is free. To sell a junk car in Casper, start with the offer form, or read how our junk car program works.
If your truck or car has quit on you, selling a car with a blown engine or head gasket and selling one with a slipping transmission weigh fixing it against selling it as is. A wreck has its own guide: selling an accident-damaged car.
Casper rules for a private sale
- •City code bars parking a vehicle on a Casper street to display it for sale. The same line bars washing, greasing or repairing it there, other than emergency repairs. (Casper code 10.36.020)
- •Parking a car or trailer "for sale" on any lot in town isn't permitted either, because of zoning, the city's code enforcement office says. (City of Casper)
- •In June 2025, Casper Police warned that buyers from online marketplaces were paying sellers in person with counterfeit bills and leaving before the fakes were caught. The department advises checking all cash carefully or using another way to pay, and asks anyone who got fake bills to call 307-235-8278. (Casper Police)
Asked by Casper sellers
I still owe on my truck. How does the lien come off in Casper?
Get a payoff quote from your lender first. If the payoff is smaller than the offer, the difference is yours. Once the loan is paid, the lien is released at the county clerk's title office: it wants the lien release (termination) form and your Wyoming title.
Does my buyer need a VIN inspection in Casper?
Only if the car's title is from another state. In Casper, the police department does them at its station at 201 N. David St. Walk in weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., or call 307-235-8469 to book an off-site inspection. The county lists the fee as $10.
I'm replacing my truck. Can the Natrona County Treasurer credit my old plates before I sell it?
No. The treasurer's office says it can't give credit for plates from a car you still own, even one you no longer drive, because most of what you pay is an ownership tax, like the tax on a house. Sell the old one first. You don't need an appointment to register the new one.
Is it legal to keep an unregistered car on a Casper street?
No. Parking or storing an unregistered car on a Casper street is illegal, and the ticket is $110. A parking violation that lasts 24 hours or more counts as a new one, and police can have a car parked in violation towed. A vehicle left on someone else's property, public or private, for more than five days without permission is treated as abandoned.
Wyoming's notary and plate rules are on our Wyoming page.