Some cars you can find in an afternoon. Others take months — because the one you actually want is a specific year, a specific trim, a specific color, with options that were only ordered a few hundred times.

GarageScout is a rare car finder built for the second kind of search: classic, collector and enthusiast cars, down to the exact spec.

DESCRIBE THE CAR THE WAY YOU'D SAY IT OUT LOUD

"2016-2018 Cayman GT4, manual, under 60,000 miles, not silver."
"E39 M5, Le Mans Blue, six-speed, with service history."
"GR86 Hakone Edition, automatic, within 500 miles of Boston."

No dropdowns. You say what you want, and GarageScout works out the year range, the trim, the drivetrain, the color and the options you named — then checks each listing against them before showing you anything. If you asked for a manual, you get manuals.

ONE SEARCH, EVERY CORNER OF THE MARKET

Collector car auctions, classic car specialists, national marketplaces and enthusiast forum classifieds — the places a rare car actually turns up, not just the two sites everyone already checks. GarageScout Pro adds dealer inventory on top: Autotrader and a nationwide dealer feed.

THE CAR YOU WANT USUALLY ISN'T LISTED TODAY

That is the whole problem with hunting a specific spec, and it is what saved searches and car listing alerts are for. Save a search and GarageScout re-runs it every single day across every source. When a matching car turns up, you get an email and a notification that day — which on a good car is the difference between making the first phone call and reading "sold".

FREE

• 3 searches a day
• Auctions, marketplaces, classic car specialists and forum classifieds
• Full results: photos, price, mileage, location, and a link straight to the listing

GARAGESCOUT PRO — $5.99 / month

• Save up to 50 searches, each re-run every day
• Email and push alerts the day a match is listed
• 20 searches a day instead of 3
• Dealer inventory: Autotrader and a nationwide dealer feed
• No ads anywhere in the app

WHO IT'S FOR

Enthusiasts hunting one specific sports car, classic or collector car. Anyone who has kept the same saved search on three different sites for six months. Flippers and independent dealers sourcing inventory. Anyone who has typed the same query into five browser tabs and still missed the car.

Listings are across the United States.

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