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 Custom Search Where's The Best Place To Find Muscle Cars for Sale?
Where are the best places to find muscle cars for sale? I'm sure you're familiar with online auctions, dealers, and classifieds - but are they safe for buyers? Buying from local muscle car classifieds magazines (like Auto Trader) or from local muscle car dealers is another option. Local car club shows and/or cruises are also a good places to check out what's available. Some other options to consider that we aren't using would include newspaper classifieds, private sellers, estate sales, or automobile auctions such as Barrett-Jackson or Mecum. You need a large budget if you consider the latter! This list shows the various places we are using to find our dream muscle car for sale, just waiting for us. If you click on each place in the list, it will take you right to a description of that source of muscle car sales. Please remember that we can't verify any of these websites, dealers or organizations as the best or only place to find muscle cars for sale. We can only share with you what our experiences are as we search for the muscle car to go in our garage.
There are many online auction sites that sell cars. Most are not very large or don't seem to be backed by large well-known companies.
The only auction site we are using is eBay Motors. Though there are lots of crooks that use eBay, for the most part we feel that the individuals and companies selling muscle cars on eBay are legit. If you haven't read it already, please click here to read about our very bad experience on eBay. Even though we were almost taken in by the scam, we still feel that it is a good marketplace for our search for a good old american muscle car. You can set up automated searches for the specific muscle car sales you are interested in and can even filter the search by location or other parameters. Plus there is a ton of great information to help you be a wise user of the muscle car classifieds that are posted there.
Click here to learn how we use eBay to find muscle cars for sale.
Our favorites include some pricey sites where the cars are for serious muscle car collectors and some sites that have more reasonable prices. So either way, if you check these dealers out, at the very least you'll get to look at some great American muscle cars for sale.
There are also hundreds of online muscle car classifieds sites out there. We found that a lot of them had very old muscle car classifieds, some of them hadn't been updated in four or five years. It was a big waste of time scanning through a site, finding great muscle car sales, and then finding out the car was sold two years ago or that the email link no longer worked.
Here are our favorite sites. All of these are updated regularly or at a minimum have the listing date of the classified advertisement so you will know how long the car has been posted for sale.
Local Muscle Car Sales Dealers
Note that the places listed in this section are also online muscle car sales dealers but they have local showrooms and would be an excellent source for individuals local to them; for instance, if you live in the St. Louis MO or Charlotte NC area, frequently visiting the Gateway Classic Cars showroom and getting to know the sales staff would greatly increase your chances of finding your muscle car for sale from a local dealer. (But if you don't live in the area, you can see these dealer inventories from their online sites.) If you'd like to see the possibilities that open up when you visit in person, go to the
Field Reports page
and jump down to the Country Classic Cars report to see a video made from our visit there.
Local/Regional Car Clubs and Shows Regional car clubs and car shows are great venues for muscle car sales. Do internet research to find local organizations of car enthusiasts near you. The websites often have muscle cars for sale in a special section. They also will list car shows they are having or attending, along with the dates and times of local cruises. Attending the cruises and car shows is great fun, you meet lots of different people that you can tell that you are looking for a muscle car, and there are always muscle cars for sale. To get connected with car clubs in our area we used Yahoo Search for our state + the words "car club". For instance, we found Tidewater Mopars this way. Check out their website for an idea of the type of information you can find. Regional car shows are also excellent places to see American muscle cars for sale. Small local car shows such as the
Autorama in Maryland
or larger regional car shows such as
the Charlotte Autofair
or the massive car shows at
Carlisle Fairgrounds
in Pennsylvania are treasure troves of muscle car sales. In addition to the large car corrals of people selling on the spot, they are muscle car dealers who come to the shows with just a small part of their inventory that you can meet and let know about your specific muscle car search. Now that you know where to find muscle cars for sale, here's more info you need to know before you buy.
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There are hundreds of online classic car and muscle car dealers. Like the auction sites, most of them are small and regionally located. We recommend using a large, well-known muscle car sales site that has been around for a long time.
