Buying muscle cars usually involves working through classified ads, either local ones, or nationwide ones like the Thrifty Nickel papers, or online classified advertising listings like Google Sales, Yahoo Sales, and Craigslist to find muscle cars for sale.

Local classifieds may work for you if the car you want to buy is available from a local seller. It may not be though, particularly if it’s a car that was never made in large numbers, or a car that’s simply old enough to qualify as vintage. At that point, you need to broaden your search horizons, and look farther afield. And that usually means going online.

Google, Yahoo and Craigslist replicate the formats of classified ads, even down to breaking them down regionally, but you’ll still have to work directly with the seller. If you want some third party escrow protection, the best place to go is eBay.

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