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More Sources for Old Muscle Cars Custom Search Even though we search for old muscle cars at the places mentioned under the WHERE? button; obviously there are other equally good sources that may work better for your situation.
Now that you’ve figured out which old muscle car is your target, join a couple of online enthusiast groups or forums. Most of these groups have Cars for Sale areas in their forums. In addition, you’ll have a great resource for information you need when you find your muscle car for sale. You can post questions and get quick answers from people who know important details about your favorite muscle car. If the car you are thinking of buying is out of state, maybe a group member from that state can check it out for you in person! Some forums are manufacturer-related, i.e., fordforum.com, while others are model-specific, such as camaroforums.com. There are forums that are even more specific, for instance the Z28 forum or the forAbodiesonly.com forum. Check out some general car groups, too. Cardomain is great. Before you bother to join a forum or online group, check to see if the group is active. Some forums haven’t been updated since 2006 so it’s a waste of time to read their classifieds. Usually there will be a link that says “latest posts” or similar. This will help you decide to join or not. Another source of old muscle cars is the cars for sale magazines that you see in your local grocery store. Some are free and some cost a few dollars. Many of the magazines have online formats, too. We like to pick these up when we are traveling and scan through the ads to see if there is a local place to buy muscle cars. The length of time between publication and delivery to newsstand often means the muscle car is sold by the time you see the magazine. Muscle car sellers usually advertise in more than one place so they can get a quick sale. But, hey, they are fun to look at and you may get lucky! Local newspaper classifieds are worth a look, too. In between SUVs and mini-vans there is the occasional old muscle car for sale. Since it doesn’t happen often, this isn’t a key searching tool for us but again you never know when your dream car will be right around the corner. The first is to simply keep your eyes open.. On the way to work, school, the store, even just driving through your neighborhood…be on the look out for hidden treasure. Our son found his second Mazda RX7 this way. He noticed it sitting in the back corner of a local towing company’s parking lot. It was the model and the year he was looking for and when he realized after a couple of weeks that the car hadn’t moved, he went in and spoke to the people at the towing company. To his surprise and delight, he found that they had towed the vehicle and then contacted the out-of-state owner who eventually told them he didn’t have the money or interest in fixing the car. The owner turned the title over to the tow company and there it sat. In short order, the RX7 was parked in our driveway. 
A Motortopia friend is a hardcore Pontiac Trans Am fan and she had been seeing a covered car behind the fence of a storage facility that had the distinctive shape of a Trans Am. In a summer storm the cover was partially blown away and she could see just the front end peeking out. She turned to her friends at the Motortopia forum to figure out if the car was her dream car, based solely on the few photos she took. She finally ventured into the facility and left a message on the windshield that the owner eventually found. In this particular case, the owner wants to keep his Trans Am and restore it. But many times the car sitting neglected at a storage facility could very easily be purchased by an interested party – you! (Go to this link to see more information about Lilhotrod and the mystery T/A.)
There is no telling when or where the person you spoke with will see a muscle car and let you know. The information they give you might be a dead end or it might be a high-demand muscle car just waiting for the right owner. That old Nova sitting in their Grandfather’s back yard could turn out to be the highly-desired 396 SS you’ve been looking for. Please don’t underestimate word of mouth as an excellent resource for finding old muscle cars. To see other sources for old muscle cars, click here. Click here to go HOME.
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And while mentioning grocery store car sales magazines, we have to mention enthusiast magazine classifieds. Most muscle car magazines from Hemmings Muscle Machines to Chevy High Performance all have old muscle car classified ads in each issue. Again, the time lag between the seller entering the ad and publication means you could be disappointed by making an offer too late. Most enthusiast magazine also have their ads on their website, too, so it might be better to check there than the print version.
There are two more very important sources for you to leverage when you want to find your muscle car. 
