My List Of Cars To Restore – These Are Very Rare And Had To Find.

The first thing that you should know is that you will pay a lot of money for any of these cars. This is my list of the 10 best American muscle cars to restore. These cars won't be for sale the the thousands of dollars, or even the tens of thousands of dollars, unless you get lucky.

If you get lucky enough to find any of them for sale in the tens of thousands of dollars range. Plan on no less then around $90,000 this would be a great deal for most of these muscle cars. I realize that cars like this aren't for every muscle car nut.

Now right in to the mix, my first pick is the 1969 ZL1 Corvette. There were only two of these cars ever built, a yellow one, and a white one. The white one was seized by the government in a drug bust, and re-sold at auction for $300,000, you know how the government under sells things.

1.1969 ZL1 Corvette: This car came with an all aluminum 427 CID engine that was under rated at 430 horsepower, it was closer to 600 horsepower. The fact that there were only two ever built, and they came with the all aluminum 427 ZL1 engine puts this car in the number one position for me.

2.The 1967 Ford Cobra: This car came with a 427 engine, that was rated at 425 horsepower, but just like the ZL1 Corvette above, this car was under rated in horsepower also, probably closer to the upper 500 to lower 600 horsepower range. This combined with the fact that there were very few of them ever built puts this car in the number two position.

3.1969 ZL1 Camaro: this car came with the same engine as the Corvette above did, the all aluminum ZL1 417 CID, 430 Horsepower rated big block. I seen one of these cars auction for $990,000, there were only 69 built.

4.1970 Buick GSX: This was a very special muscle car, it held the highest horsepower until 1992, when Dodge released the Viper. I seen one of these sell for $660,000, there were very few of these cars ever built, the car came with a 455 CID engine rated at 360 Horsepower and 510 ftlb of torque, the stage 1 engine was rated at 360 horsepower, obviously when you compare the horsepower to the torque, it seems to be a bit off, I'd say it's around 500 horsepower.

5.1970 Hemi 'Cuda: The Hemi 'Cuda without a doubt put it's mark on the earth also, it's claim to fame was the hemispherical combustion chamber design that the heads boasted. The horsepower rating was about like all of the others. It was a 426 CID Hemi, the was rated at 425 horsepower, obviously under rated again, like the others it's closer to the 500-600 horsepower range. That along with the fact that their were few of them ever built give this car the fifth position.

6.1967 L88 Corvette: This is a great example of a dual purpose muscle car, in 1966 the L88 Corvette took both first and second places that the twenty four hours of Dytona. The L88 Corvette a 427 CID engine that was rated at 435 horsepower from the factory, but as the cars above it was closer to the 500-600 horsepower range, I saw one of the go for $2,000,000.

7.1967 Mustang GT 500: The GT 500 came with a 428 CID engine that was rated at 425 horsepower from the factory, but like the other was under rated in that area, it makes the list simply on it's rarity.

8.Mustang 1967 GT 350: The was powered by a 289 CID engine that was rated at 305 horsepower from the factory, but closer to 425 horsepower. It boasted a 0-60 time of 7.1 seconds. This is a very rare Mustang also.

9.1969 Yenko Camaro: This car was a special creation of Don Yenko, who owned Yenko Chevrolet at the time. Of course this car came with a 427 CID engine that was rated at 430 horsepower from the factory, these cars are very rare, and hard to find.

10.1969 Baldwin-Motion Camaro: This car was a bit different from the others, it had a 454 rather that a 427. This makes the list on shear rareness, and the fact that it's just a cool car.