Where's The Best Place To Find Muscle Cars for Sale?
Where are great muscle cars for sale? Do you know the best places to find used muscle cars? 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 or estate sales.
This list shows the various places we are searching to find good selections of classic muscle cars for sale.
Online Car Auctions
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 used to find our muscle car was 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.
Online Classic Car or Muscle Car Dealers
There are hundreds of online classic car and muscle car dealers. Like the auction sites, most of them are small and regionally located. If you decide to buy from an online dealer instead of a local muscle car dealer, we recommend using a large, well-known muscle car sales site that has been around for a long time. You can type the words "muscle cars for sale" or "classic cars for sale" in either Yahoo or Google and lots of online dealer website options will be displayed. Our favorites include some high-dollar sites where the cars are for serious muscle car collectors with big pockets and some sites for regular guys that have more reasonable prices. So either way, when you check these dealers out, at the very least you'll get to look at some great American muscle cars for sale.
Online Muscle Car Classifieds
There are hundreds of online muscle car classifieds sites out there. We found that a lot of them had very old muscle car classifieds, some that hadn't been updated in years. It is 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 works. Here are our favorite sites. All of these are updated regularly or show 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
If you are fortunate enough to have a local dealer that has muscle car sales, we highly recommend using them as a primary source to find your muscle car. This is a good idea for so many reasons: you can see the car in person, you can negotiate price in person, you have a brick and mortar place to go if there are problems after the purchase, and more. Plus, once you get to know the dealership and the owner/sales people, you can rest assured that they will be actively searching for your muscle car for sale elsewhere so that they can bring it to you.
Note that the places listed in this section also offer internet muscle car sales but they have local showrooms and are an excellent source for individuals near them; for instance, if you live in the St. Louis MO 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.
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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 club websites often have muscle cars for sale in a classifieds section. They also 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 people that you talk to about the muscle car you are looking for, 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." This is how we found Tidewater Mopars. 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
Back to the Beach Car Show
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, many muscle car dealers 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.
Please remember that we can't verify any of these websites, dealers or organizations as the best or only place to find used 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.
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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