If you live in Santa Barbara County and own an old car, you may be able to trade it in for cash. A car buyback program aimed at removing older, more polluting vehicles from the road has been expanded.
“Our old car buyback program previously only accepted cars that were model year 1997 or older, and participants were paid a thousand dollars,” said Liz Bantilan, with the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District, which is sponsoring the old car buyback program.
“New this year, we're accepting vehicles that are model year 2002 or older, and we are paying participants $2,200,” said the APCD Public Information Officer.
She said there are some conditions.
“Vehicles for our program must be registered in Santa Barbara County, and they had to have been registered in Santa Barbara County for the past two consecutive years. The vehicle has to be working, and it has to be smog checked,” said Bantilan.
The buyback program has removed more than 8,000 old cars from Santa Barbara County’s streets since it began in 1993.
Ventura County also has a car buyback program in effect.
