Your view on the value of 6-cylinder GT Hawks ? (lengthy...)

Apr 29, 2006 11 Replies
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I gues a 6-cylinder GT Hawk is a pretty rare thing in US whereas especially on the continental Europe many cars were fitted with 6 cylinder + 3 speed OD -- no power stereing or brakes. There are continuously several cars for sale. Owners ofcourse follow the prices of eBay and also may lookm at NADA or Old Cars Value guide recomendation on just to deduct 10 % due to 6-cylinder. Well I have looked and driven some 4-5 6-cylinder GT Hawks ( have also owned one very nice 1959 Silver Hawk 6-cylinder) -- I think ( personally) that the value of a typical "no optioned" 6-cylinder GT Hawk would be somewhere 25-40 % lower than the V8 model. It just feels totally different different ( I have also owned 3



1962-1963 GT Hawk -- all were factory original 4-speed cars with HD suspension , TT etc). I have this question as I have badly rusted 62 GT Hawk with 289 + 4-speed + 44 TT rear -- but thinking about buying a 6-cylinder car to convert it I just feel that the
6-cylinder cars over here are "overpriced" ( based on the 10 % lower bookvalue vs. V8 models) ... there are still quite many things in the brakes, rear axle, suspension, cooling etc. that I dropped the idea.

I can easily buy the view of adding 15 % value on a 4-speed option ... but the proposed 10 % deduction on 6-cylinder ( on 62-64 GTH) feels way too little to me.



Pekka ( too "spoiled" with the past ownership of 289/ 4-speed GTHs)


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You make a good point, it just never occured to me. I'll submit a suggestion that they increase the deduction for the sixes on most years.

40% is too much.. What do you guys th>
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Thanks JP. However, all the GT Hawks imported to Finland different to many other European destinations were with 289s and out of the six cars imported ( thats all that we got back in 1962-64...) five were with T-10 and one with 3+OD. I owned the best "survivor for almost 9 years.... I regret that I sold it a couple of years ago. Thus, I recently got a bit frustrated looking for a new one among the 6-cylinder ones...

I do not know if this link works...

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Some old magazine coverage of my former 62 GT Hawk with Metallic brown custom interior... other than that it was original...

Pekka

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I agree regarding the all the six cylinders vs. V8 s -- the markup should be more... But there are some other "strange values" if you look at Old Cars Price Guide .. the 1955 coupes are above 1957 Golden Hawks and

1953-54 coupes ... eg. 1955 Champion Regal being same at the level of 1957 Golden Hawk! That seems strange to me ... even though owning a 1955 President State coupe .... I do not think that it reflects the real market situation ( excluding Speedsters) .... and this has been very stable in this publication for many, many years ... Maybe they just do not update the data on certain models ..?

Pekka

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I would agree when it comes to the States, but maybe with the high price of gas in Europe the drop in value is about right. What really counts is whether they are getting the prices they ask. Whatever they have been selling for is the market price.

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Pekka, Thanks for renewing your SDC membership. Have you considered increasing the HP of your six? Plenty of parts are available out of Northeastern US (and probably other places.)Karl

Karl

PekkaP wrote:

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Years ago, there was a member in Maine (John Griffin?) to whom members were requested to send notice of any Studebaker sale so that we could have a data base to use for insurance claims. I guess that was dropped somewhere along the line. I think that this stared when I was editor of the SDC magazine at the time this started, so we're talking late 1960s..

Karl

dwcars wrote:

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pulling prices/ideas out of ass, AKA "anal research".

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