You especially don't if you're following Jewish customs regarding dead bodies, specifically ones that consider any tampering with it to be defilement, to the point that under the strictest interpretation of Jewish law even autopsies are forbidden.
This only really could be argued for cars that people died in, in such a manner that they cannot appreciably be separated from the vehicle. There's no halacha on the disposal of regular old destroyed cars which is the case for the overwhelming majority of these.
You especially don't if you're following Jewish customs regarding dead bodies, specifically ones that consider any tampering with it to be defilement, to the point that under the strictest interpretation of Jewish law even autopsies are forbidden.
This only really could be argued for cars that people died in, in such a manner that they cannot appreciably be separated from the vehicle. There's no halacha on the disposal of regular old destroyed cars which is the case for the overwhelming majority of these.
What I'm getting from this is that since Optimus Prime is Jewish, when he dies it's not cool to strip out the CD changer and sell it on eBay
Yep