Chances are excellent that the towing company will dispose of it in a way that results in you owing them money, which they'll then try to bill you for.

That depends. Were you still in it?

This AskMeta might provide some guidance.

Ugh, that AskMefi is scary. I don't even know where to begin figuring out who to send money to, and who to yell at for towing my car without warning me.

Ugh!

In Chicago at least, you'd end up owing thousands in "storage" fees in addition to all those tickets. The fact that the city doesn't have a current address for you doesn't matter -- most cities now integrate fines so that they show up whenever and whereever you have to deal with the city.

meh. here, they just apply to the state for an abandoned vehicle title, then auction it off to recoup storage and towing fees. no nasty consequences. practices will vary by state, county and municipality though.

clarification: my response deals only with an abandoned vehicle. having $900 unpaid tickets as the askme person did is a whole different ball of wax.

This happened to my wife's car once. I was driving back from the mechanics, having just paid several hundred dollars to get it 'fixed.' It died about 3 blocks from the shop. I pushed it to the parking lot of my apartment complex and there it sat...and sat. Eventually I moved out, and we left the car there. As we were still making small payments on it, we didn't want to just give it away, and we didn't have any money to get it fixed (but thought we might 'someday'). We used to check on it every once and a while, and one day, several months later, it was just gone. We never heard anything more about it.

Don't know if it makes any difference, but this was in Ohio and the car had Indiana plates.