19 Years In, and We're Just Getting Started

A first look at CampusCarLot — from the team behind MilitaryCarLot.com, which turns 19 this Veterans Day. You can see it now; we officially turn it on Wednesday, November 11.

Nineteen years ago this Veterans Day, MilitaryCarLot.com started with a simple idea: the military community deserved its own place to buy and sell vehicles — military members, base neighbors, and military-friendly and vetted car dealers at 300+ military bases. The community showed up, and it has been growing ever since. To everyone who has bought, sold, or just browsed with us in 19 years: thank you. You built this.

This Veterans Day we are launching the same idea for the next generation: CampusCarLot.com. Students buy and sell locally, right at their school — free to list, searchable by campus, and built for the way students actually move: arrive in the fall, graduate in the spring, and find affordable wheels for everything in between — Cars, Trucks, Boats, RVs, Campers, ATVs, and Motorcycles.

Campus wheels are not all cars, either. Students can buy and sell e-bikes, e-scooters, and other e-rides — the machines that change hands every semester, right alongside the cars and trucks.

Ski-Doo snowmobile in the snow outside the Michigan Tech campus in Houghton, Michigan
Winter at Michigan Tech, one of our first CampusCarLot campuses. In the Upper Peninsula, a good snowmobile is not a toy. It's transportation.

You can take a look right now at CampusCarLot.com — the doors are open for browsing. We officially turn it on Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, starting with 30 campuses: Texas A&M, Arizona State, UCF, Ohio State, Florida, Michigan, Hawaii, and Michigan Tech, where a Ski-Doo counts as a second vehicle. All 30 will be open ahead of graduation season this spring.

And here is the part we like most: these are the same families. The student buying a $7,000 sedan at Texas A&M is very often the kid who grew up around base housing. Serving one generation well means being there for the next one too.

Happy Veterans Day.

— Randy


Shop Cars, Trucks, Boats, RVs, Campers, ATVs, and Motorcycles at 30 college campuses on CampusCarLot.com — and Military Community Vehicles at 300+ military bases on MilitaryCarLot.com.