J
Do you want to drag race or do you want to spend most of your time in a shop restoring it? Not a sarcastic question, both can be rewarding. In all honesty, forget about "classic" american muscle for your drag car, and snatch up a Fox-body Mustang or older Camaro. Why? Old muscle cars are heavy. Heavy = slow. Old muscle cars cost a significant amount of cash and sweat and blood to restore. Old muscle cars are also collector's items and thus finding one in good (read driveable) condition can run up a hefty price. On the other hand, a Fox-body or Camaro/Firebird of recent make will be significantly cheaper to find in good running condition, and anyone you find to help you work on the car will have probably had their hands in the engine bay of either of these cars before. Both engines have a slew of parts on the market right now, and are well documented in build to go very fast. Also, they're lighter, and lighter is faster! Don't get me wrong, owning a proper 60's era muscle car would be great, but I wouldn't dare do it without having a back-up car, and I would set aside a pretty massive budget and be prepared to spend quite a bit of time in the garage.

C7S
Drag cars. The famous Drag cars were Chevy Chevelle and Dodge Challenger and Plymouth Hemi Cuda. The Mustangs and Camaro's and Chargers were more for track racing, not drags.

Rob
1.) GTO 2.) Ford Mustang 3. Chevy Chevelle S/S 4.) Chevy Nova S/S c'mon the list is endless