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On the contrary, pulling apart a car and selling it for parts is frequently worth more than the car itself on the used market. It's especially profitable when you've stolen the car. The hardest part is probably getting rid of the parts of the shell that have VINs stamped into them.

Used to be that they would drive it somewhere quiet, pull parts off, and leave the carcas on the side of the road. At least, that's what happened to my cars a few times in the early 2000's.

They either get reworked in a chop shop, stripped for parts and then the remainder used for scrap, or they get shipped abroad for resale

Many stolen cars are transported out of the country

body panels and related polymer. interior re-options, operations like that have established shops, and compounds. they just have to be wary of buying from a "heatscore" with cops on thier tail.