Muscle Car Clubs – Great Cars and Great Sellers!
Local muscle car clubs should definitely be on your list of sources for excellent muscle cars. There are so many benefits to seeking out these muscle car enthusiasts. Even if they don’t have the particular car you’re looking for, they most likely know someone who is selling one, or sold one, or has one. The more people that know you are in the market, the faster you will find your muscle car. Here’s an example from our experience.
The Tidewater Mopar Club is a very active, Mopar-only car club. We first saw them at a regional car show with a display next to a beautiful Plymouth Duster. Every year they raffle off a project muscle car that their club has restored. The funds are used to support charity. We bought a chance on the Duster and picked up some literature, which we filed away and didn’t look at. But before long we realized that we were seeing them at multiple car events. No, we’re not suggesting you get your muscle car by buying raffle tickets!
After seeing them more than once, we decided to check the club out on their website. What a treasure trove of information! For example, if you’ve read about
places we recommend
to find a muscle car, you’ll know that car shows are on the list. The Tidewater Mopar Club website lists months of upcoming car shows. It also has links to other regional car clubs for Fords, Pontiacs, etc. It has forums where club members post cars for sale and also has a forum where you can post information on the car you are looking for! All in one handy website.
The most important thing to know is that there are hundreds of clubs just like Tidewater Mopar Club all over the country and all over the web. Some are brand specific, others are era-specific, or class specific (hot rods, muscle cars, imports, etc.).
Here are some of the benefits of joining or at least finding out about a local muscle car club:
- Members of muscle car clubs love muscle cars and take good care of them. You want to buy your muscle car from someone who appreciates classic American cars.
- Club members know lots of other people who also love muscle cars, expanding your reach to people you would never meet otherwise.
- Websites of muscle car clubs usually have classified ads or forums where people post cars for sale.
- These clubs sponsor local car shows and/or cruises where muscle cars are displayed and usually have car corrals where cars are for sale.
- Members of muscle car clubs love using their knowledge and expertise. They can inspect a muscle car for sale that you are interested in for you, either formally or informally.
- After your find your muscle car, these folks will be a great resource to you for repair or restoration questions. You may even find you become a muscle car club member yourself.
There are a couple of ways you can find local car clubs in your area.
The
Hemmings
website has a large directory of muscle car clubs. (Scroll down to near the end of the left nav bar on their homepage.) And, of course, go to Yahoo or your favorite search engine and type in your city or state plus the word “car club.” To get more specific results, add the name of the car manufacturer you are interested in. Muscle car magazines have advertisements or listings of car shows and most are sponsored by car clubs. Flipping through any muscle car magazine will help you find muscle car shows and the names of the clubs that are sponsoring the shows. By the way, there are many excellent clubs that are national or cover a large region. These are good sources for finding your muscle car too but to stick with our recommendation of seeing what you are buying, we recommend seeking with local clubs first.
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