Oklahoma lot has hundreds of cars wrapped in red plastic bags hiding secrets and you get in big trouble if you remove them

A YouTuber found a car graveyard in Oklahoma packed with cars wrapped in red plastic bags.

You’re not allowed to remove them and YouTuber Auto Auction Rebuilds revealed why.

If you do, you won’t get away with a warning and a scowl.

There are legal reasons behind this, but also reasons related to health and safety.

The most common reasons why cars are wrapped like this

In general, cars are wrapped like this and abandoned in a car graveyard when there’s an ongoing investigation.

However, this main, one-size-fits-all reason can stem from so many situations, and there are also plenty more ways a car can get trapped in bureaucratic limbo.

Whenever that happens, the car remains available to relevant authorities for as long as they need it, which is sometimes virtually forever, especially in countries where the legal system is not exactly speedy.

There’s an old adage that says there’s ‘nothing more permanent than a temporary government solution’.

But here the situation gets worse, because the only thing more permanent than a temporary government solution is a temporary bureaucratic solution.

This is often the reason why some cars end up in a legal maze that keeps them unusable and unsellable for ages, which is what happened with abandoned Teslas bought by a company that went bust.

It is also what happened to a Mercedes SLR that sat abandoned in a field in Europe for years.

As for the cars wrapped in red tape in Oklahoma, the situation is even more complicated.

There are two theories surrounding these cars in Oklahoma

The man behind the Auto Auction Rebuilds YouTube channel traveled to Oklahoma to investigate why there are so many cars wrapped in red plastic bags in this car graveyard.

Whenever we see a ‘red bagged’ car, it’s usually because it is being processed by the Insurance Auto Auctions (IAA).

The wrap is applied to securely seal the vehicle to preserve evidence, prevent parts theft, and keep the weather out.

Also, the red tape means the cars are generally under some form of investigation, and only police officials and sometimes insurance inspectors are allowed to see what’s going on.

Somebody in the comment section of the video also gave a third reason.

“I’ve transported a few red bag IAA cars; sometimes they’re bagged because the biohazard is beyond just slapping a sticker on the window,” they explained.

But, and this is a key ‘but’, this Oklahoma story has been viral for ages and, through the years, several commentators noted that these cars were simply wrapped to prevent them from damage from rust and sunlight.