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Shoppers like the ’69 Mustang, but suddenly ignore vintage Broncos

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The Mach I was the high-performance version of the 1969 Ford Mustang

Perhaps they were not quite tectonic shifts, but there were significant changes in what those shopping on the ClassicCars.com Marketplace were looking for in August. 

Among searches by specific year, make and model, the 1969 Ford Mustang moved into first place for the first time since we started reporting on these searches back in January 2019.

The ’69 Mustang usually was among the top-5 on the most-searched list, but had never been higher than third place — until August, when it galloped past the 1967 Mustang and 1967 Chevrolet Impala to take over first place.

But the Mustang’s ascension to first place on the year-make-model list seems almost insignificant compared with the plummet in interest suffered by vintage Ford Broncos in August. 

Buick Grand National, the American muscle car of the 1980s, soars in searches

After steadily climbing up the list and reaching fifth place among searches by any-year of a vehicle model, the Bronco dropped out of the top-1o in August, when it fell to 16th in such searches, trailing even the International Harvester Scout, which ranked 15th among such searches during the month.

“Is it possible that we have all OD-ed on Broncos? With the upcoming 2021 models in the works, and a highly active Ford P.R. department, we all have been inundated with the ‘other’ pony,” suggested Tom Stahler, managing editor of the ClassicCars.com Journal. 

“That said, the 1969 Mustang has great styling, classic lines and represents a Baby Boomer’s High School dream car.”

Topping the all-years search list in August, as usual, were Chevrolet, Mustang, Ford and Volkswagen bus/van. DeLorean ascended into Bronco’s former fifth-place position, edging ahead of the Chevrolet C-10 pickup truck. 

But while the Bronco got bucked out of the top-10, the Buick Grand Nationals flexed its turbocharged V6 and moved up to seventh place, an impressive climb from outside the top-20 just a month earlier.

“For Gen-Xers like me, the Grand National was a high school dream car,” Stahler noted. “We have seen nice examples rising in value and traded more frequently. It does not surprise me that the ’80s muscle car with its beautiful graphics package and decent horsepower has risen.”

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Monthly most-searched list gets British and Irish accents

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MarketplaceDeLorean soars in searches on the ClassicCars.com Marketplace in May

With only one major change in the ClassicCars.com Marketplace most-searched lists for May 2020 (more on that below), we’re applying a twist to this monthly report by noting what folks in the UK are searching on their side of the pond.

According to a story in the Evening Express, the Ford Capri tops the list of most-searched-for classic cars, according to date supplied by Car and Classic magazine.

“The Capri remains as iconic today as it did when it was first launched,” the Evening Express reports. “In terms of outright classic car fame, the Capri is akin to Elvis Presley… Iconic both in terms of design and the time period it was made in, the Capri was one of the first cars to bring a slice of American muscle to the UK – in a uniquely British way.”

Ford Cortina among most-searched classics in the UK | Evening Express photo

Runner-up in the UK is the Volkswagen Beetle with the Ford Cortina third, followed by the MGB GT and Triumph Stag.

Those results from the UK are based on what we term “all-year” searches, so we’ll begin our monthly report on the ClassicCars.com Marketplace with our comparable list which, as usual, is topped — in order — by Chevrolet, Ford and Mustang.

In May, the Volkswagen Bus and Chevy C10 pickup truck swapped fourth and fifth places. But then comes the big news: The DeLorean surged from barely looked at to sixth overall!

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We’d say “blimey!” but DeLoreans were assembled in Northern Ireland, so perhaps it’s “Bang on!”

“A few weeks ago, Jim Volgarino did a story here on ClassicCars.com about a DeLorean comeback – and some crazy Frankenstein creations,” said Journal managing editor Tom Stahler. “Add to that, Delorean Motor Company is beginning to produce a new DMC-12. Consider also the passion for interesting ’80s cars has been growing by leaps and bounds.”

Meanwhile, Willys/Jeep and Volkswagen dune buggy both climbed into the top-10 list for May, joining DeLorean and bumping out Corvette, Bronco and Pontiac.

Among searches done by year-make-model, the 1967 For Mustang retained the top spot with the 67 Chevrolet Impala against second. But the 1969 Mustang climbed from fourth in April to third in May and the ’65 Mustang from sixth to fourth, a spot ahead of the 1969 Charger.

Mustangs of various years in the 1960s took six of the top-10 spots in the year-make-model search list for May.

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