Selling MacBook (MA701LL/A) 2006-Lost the original Install Discs

I am selling MacBook (MA701LL/A) 2006 but I misplaced the original Install Discs. They will probably show up after I sell the laptop. Is there any way the wipe the hard drive, install Mac OS Snow Leopard (these discs I have) so that the laptop would be fully operational.
Thanks

Install no, not without functional installer discs. 
Wipe yes.  Clone the internal drive to a bootable external drive.  Boot from the external then wipe the internal.  The problem is, this leaves you with a computer with no operating system which nobody will want to buy.  I don't think they can even install an upgraded system without Snow Leopard on that machine.
Options.
- Try selling it as-is with trashing all personal files you can find, then secure empty trash.  Still, it is supposed to have those OS discs because as soon as the buyer starts having system problems they are going to want them.   They are part of the computer+system package that Apple sells, unlike hardware alone.
- I assume these are upgrade discs, not the original OS.  Frankly the buyer likely will not really want the original OS (though I do because it may have bundled software or utilities!).  You could just buy a set of Snow Leopard discs by calling Apple Sales.
- Wipe as above and give a big discount on machine without system.  Not good.  As buyer I want to see it can boot.

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