If budget is your primary concern, build a 3rd Gen.

Best performance per-dollar car you can build right now. Plenty of great parts out there, and you can get a good one dirt cheap.

You don't have to rich to enjoy this hobby, but it'd sure help!

This is a good call.

for the most part it is... but there are still plenty of people with money to burn... so demand is still going up per say, the supply is just dropping much quicker. That right at least?

I dont know what "plenty" amounts to, but the number of people willing to shell out money for discretionary items like muscle cars, or commit to an expensive build, has been decreasing by the day as our economy falls on its face. A lot of people are selling these types of cars out of necessity as food, mortgage/rent, bills, etc become harder to take care of. Millions of jobs have been lost recently, and you can bet not just a handful of those people have/had or were planning to have a muscle car. Well that is on hold.

I am an example of one of these people. I started a build 2 years ago when my business was doing well, and now it is not doing as well, so I may be forced to sell it upon completion. And one of the buyers I have been talking to who WAS looking for a 75-100k pro-touring Camaro probably is not in the market anymore due to the stock market falling off a cliff. There are many more examples of this....

As far as supply, sure, every year it becomes somewhat harder to find a decent 60s/70s muscle car to being a project with. But it's not like they built 100 Camaros/Novas/Chevelles/whatever every year. They built thousands and thousands of them and they are around..... you just have to look a little harder I guess.

But I will submit that demand is falling off a cliff along with our economy while supply slowly slowly diminishes.

Believe me....the deals are still out there!

Just yesterday I scored a 70 Duster with a straight body and rust free, it has a blown motor but the guy threw in a 360/727 combo. The guy just wants it gone so he said take it outta here $0.

I wasn't looking for a car at all, but I figured I would build it for my wife as she had a 70 Duster in HS that she loved.

Dude, that is a score!!!!

Yeah, It was quite a fluke, it just came up in casual coversation and I figured what the hell.

Guess I'll be looking for parts next weekend in Pleasanton...lol

This dude just got a 70 Chevelle for $1700. There are deals to be had.

http://www.pro-touring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53999

There is a local guy that I do a lot of work for. He deals in older cars and is definitely not your typical used car salesman. He's a real car guy and he has a 70 Challenger R/T in the showroom along with various other things. If anyone is in southern AZ, the drive to see their new showroom is worth it. The name is Richardson Motor Company. Just google it and it will give you contact info. He is really good on finding things. It's mostly older H.A.M.B. stuff but try him anyway.

ss1156 what exactly are you looking for? what year? does it have to be a camaro 2nd gen? or are you willing to go another route im located in san diego and due to the climate out here theres not alot of rusty cars and theres planty of muscle out here tell me what exactly you are looking for and ill help you search so shoot me that info on here or a PM and let me know your price range as well.