---
title: "You Won’t Believe How Much Blood Is Inside This 2007 Lincoln MKZ at a Salvage Auction"
description: "They're not kidding around with that BIOHAZARD label."
date: "2017-11-13"
modified: "2017-11-13"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/16019/you-wont-believe-how-much-blood-is-inside-this-2007-lincoln-mkz-at-a-salvage-auction"
categories:
  - "Lincoln News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Auction"
  - "copart"
  - "insurance"
  - "Lincoln"
  - "MKZ"
  - "Salvage"
  - "totaled"
---

# You Won’t Believe How Much Blood Is Inside This 2007 Lincoln MKZ at a Salvage Auction

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2017/11/final-2.jpg>)
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As Forrest Gump might say if he were a used car wholesaler, life is like a salvage auction: You never know what you're going to get. Sometimes [it's a hail-damaged Dodge Hellcat](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/14999/would-you-buy-this-hail-damaged-dodge-hellcat-at-a-steep-discount>) at a steep discount. Other times, [it's an Alfa Romeo Guilia Quadrifoglio](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/9120/for-sale-alfa-romeo-giulia-rollover-special>) that's been rolled, and rolled, and rolled...and rolled. And once in a while, you come across something like this 2007 Lincoln MKZ whose unassuming, undamaged exterior hides an interior that's bloodier than the private box at Ford's Theatre circa April 15, 1865.

We will warn you now: [The pictures that accompany this Copart listing](<https://www.copart.com/lot/30015077/>) in Fort Worth, Texas are shocking and disturbing. Based on an extremely amateur forensic analysis, it looks like someone shot themselves in the head while sitting in the driver's seat, resulting in exactly the kind of grisly mess you'd expect in that situation. Incredibly, the car was somehow processed by police, totaled by the insurance company, and put online for sale without anyone cleaning the interior.

![message-editor%2F1510604120518-47e490f9-8e02-4bfe-ae57-a245631b4f36.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1510604120518-47e490f9-8e02-4bfe-ae57-a245631b4f36.jpg>)
**Copart**

Of course, it's the cost of a highly specialized cleaning service that forced the insurance company to scrap the Lincoln in the first place, but it's not every day you see a car that looks like it was towed straight from a crime scene to the auction block. Aside from all the blood and...shall we say, *matter*, it's the way the Copart photos mimic every other used car listing online that makes this so surreal. The three interior pictures feature the same exact careless angles and odd cropping you've seen a million times before—except for the spatters, smears, and pools of dried blood. It's like the photographer didn't even notice.

![message-editor%2F1510604313035-fa558ef0-a76c-4d43-8534-bef076499f64.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/message-editor/1510604313035-fa558ef0-a76c-4d43-8534-bef076499f64.jpg>)
*We had to blur that out ourselves. Trust us, it's better that way., *Copart**

Additionally, the listing opens with the usual three-quarter exterior shots where nothing seems amiss, so anyone who's searching for a screaming deal on a pre-recession, front-wheel-drive sedan would be in for a real surprise. That is, if the car hadn't already been sold. That's right: you may have noticed the listing states that someone actually bought this car a few months ago. Hopefully by now it's been given [the world's most thorough scrubbing,](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/13199/watching-a-disgusting-1985-mercedes-benz-190-e-get-fully-detailed-is-like-therapy>) or a new interior entirely.

Just because you *can* clean something, though, doesn't mean you should. Even if this car was free, the amount of money or effort needed to rescue that interior wouldn't be worth the result: a 2007 Lincoln MKZ with 87,572 miles and a dark, dark past.

## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

### Author social links  
[Bluesky](<https://bsky.app/profile/kylecheromcha.bsky.social>)  
[Instagram](<https://www.instagram.com/kylecheromcha>)  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-cheromcha-1550248a/>)