Sell Your Car for Cash in Big Spring, TX

Cash Offers for Big Spring Car Sellers

Big Spring sits at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 87 and Interstate 20 in the Permian Basin, and that crossroads history still shapes the town: a working refinery, decades of oilfield truck traffic, and a fleet of older vehicles that eventually break down for good on ranch roads, in refinery parking lots, or in driveways off Gregg Street. If a car in Big Spring has stopped running, has hail damage from a West Texas storm, or is simply not worth fixing anymore, it can still be turned into cash without the hassle of a private sale.

Geography of Big Spring

Big Spring is the county seat of Howard County, Texas, positioned almost exactly halfway between Midland-Odessa and Abilene along Interstate 20 in the heart of the Permian Basin. U.S. Highway 87 crosses I-20 in the city, making Big Spring a natural stopping and shipping point for oilfield traffic moving through West Texas.

Free towing is included anywhere in Big Spring and the surrounding area. You can find more about local services on the City of Big Spring's official website.

History of Big Spring

Big Spring was founded in the early 1880s as a railroad and ranching town after the Texas and Pacific Railroad came through, and it became the county seat of Howard County in 1882. The city's real transformation came in 1926, when oil was discovered nearby; over the following decade the population nearly tripled, reaching 13,375 by 1930, and by 1936 more than 800 wells were producing in the surrounding fields. In 1939 the Big Spring State Hospital opened as one of the state's early psychiatric hospitals, becoming, alongside the refinery, one of the city's largest and longest-running employers.

Culture of Big Spring

Today Big Spring's economy still runs largely on oil and gas, anchored by the Big Spring Refinery (owned by Marathon Petroleum), which processes Permian Basin crude, along with a steady base of oilfield service companies. But the local economy isn't a single-industry town: Howard College, the Big Spring State Hospital, a federal correctional institution, and a VA hospital all rank among the area's largest employers, giving the city a mix of public-sector and energy-sector jobs that has helped it weather the boom-bust cycles more typical of smaller Permian Basin towns.

As of recent Census Bureau estimates, Big Spring's population sits in the roughly 22,000–24,000 range, making it one of the larger communities between Abilene and Midland-Odessa along I-20. The oilfield's normal wear and tear — long highway miles, gravel roads, hard braking on ranch cutoffs — keeps a steady supply of trucks and older sedans reaching the end of the road here, which is exactly the kind of vehicle that's often easier to sell for cash than to repair or trade in.