Firehawk's current value

Maxedwell · Post by **Maxedwell** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:40 am

Firebuzzard wrote:
Pokeyhawk wrote:I bought a 95 Hawk this past summer with 58K miles on it. It has some mods (subframes, headers, exhaust, swaybars, lowering springs, etc.) and was garage kept. It is a very clean car. I paid $9500 for it. I feel that the price was about right, but I have noticed that the LT1 cars aren't bringing alot of money right now. Did I overpay? I don't really know, but I am very happy with the car. Just thought I would add my 2 cents to the firehawk value post.
Three months ago I bought a 1995 Firehawk convertible for $24,500. Did I pay too much for it? Some say yes, I say no. It cost $34,800 when new in 1995...and its still like new. It was stored in a original owners house, and it had 2525 miles when I bought it...now its got 2900 miles. It is shwroom new condition. I wanted a new 1995 Firehawk when they were new, but at that time I cold not afford it. Now I have my new 1995 Firehawk convertible for $10,000 less than what it cost in 1995. You got a great deal!

Like someone else stated, it is all about what the buyer is willing to pay. I was fortunate enough to purchase an immaculate, mint condition '95 Firehawk in September and I paid somewhere in between what you guys both paid. My car has 22k on it. The car new as almost $40k and the original owner probably sunk another $5-$10k in mods. So I have a car that probably cost the oringal owner close to $50k and I got it for less than $20k. Do LT1s bring less? It all depends on the car, options, miles, condition, aftermarket mods, etc. Of course the LS1s are newer so they should sell for more but there are always exceptions. I'd put my car up against most LS1s as far as performance and condition!

02hawk796 · Post by **02hawk796** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:14 am

Maxedwell wrote:
Firebuzzard wrote: Three months ago I bought a 1995 Firehawk convertible for $24,500. It cost $34,800 when new in 1995...
... '95 Firehawk in September and I paid somewhere in between what you guys both paid. The car new as almost $40k and the original owner probably sunk another $5-$10k in mods. So I have a car that probably cost the oringal owner close to $50k and I got it for less than $20k.

Is this true? '95 hawk owners?
A 95 Hawk vert cost under $35K new, and a 95 Hawk coupe cost around $40K? A vert option runs about $4K, right? So that 95 vert would have been about $31K without the vert option, right?
Is that right? I don't get it. Did a Hawk in 95 have around $9K in optional content available?
I've never heard of an LT1 coupe Hawk running a sticker price that high.

Maxedwell · Post by **Maxedwell** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:26 am

Mine IS a convertible. I'm rounding up on the figures but I have a copy of the original invoice and the car lists at $38XXX. I don't know if the dealer added extra costs into the car but that is what it sold for. It had almost every option available and was the higher performance version (315 vs 305 hp).

Firebuzzard · Post by **Firebuzzard** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:49 am

I have the window sticker, and bill of sale from the original owner of my 95 Hawk vert, and it cost $34800. Its a 95 vert, 300 hp, 6-speed, CD, Hawk mats, leather seats, speed tires.

hawk_r6v · Post by **hawk_r6v** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:48 pm

Bill of sale on my 95 was around $34K

02hawk796 · Post by **02hawk796** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:43 am

OK, I just didn't figure for such drastic rounding, and that you did have a vert.

So then the TOTL exhaust option was about $4K then?

Thanks for the details, guys.

James_Montigny · Post by **James_Montigny** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:22 pm

Picked up beautiful a red 93 Hawk with 31k on it for $13.8k last week.
Seemed like a good deal to me.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... AMEWN%3AIT

Garry · Post by **Garry** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:32 pm

Come on, who here has bought his Firebird for the hope of it increasing in value? Sure, there may be people out there, but unless they have multiple F-Bodies and get one special just for show & increase of values, I would dare to be just about anybody here has bought the car because it looks great, performs quite well, or beat the sh@t out of those d@mn ricers

Me, I got mine when I had the chance - I've had a 98 Camaro 'vert V6 since 01, and would have much rather had a Firebird then. Well, now I have my Firebird, and even a special one - it won't see much more than maybe around 5000mi per year (thanks to outrages gas and spare part prices in Germany), but apart from that, you can bet I will enjoy just about every single (quarter) mile I do in it!!!

02hawk796 · Post by **02hawk796** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:49 pm

Garry wrote:Come on, who here has bought his Firebird for the hope of it increasing in value?

I know Hawk owners who have made money on their buy/sell. They're the ones who don't modify their Hawks. I know a guy who makes 5-digit profits on quick turnarounds of CETAs, WS6s, and some Hawks.

Garry · Post by **Garry** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:04 am

But would they be on this board except to hunt for new trade-objects?

Firebuzzard · Post by **Firebuzzard** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:59 am

I have a 1995 Firehawk convertible with only 2900 miles, I plan to put only a few hundred miles a year on it. But, I do have a 2000 Trans Am WS6 that I will be driving alot.

02hawk796 · Post by **02hawk796** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:51 pm

Garry wrote:But would they be on this board except to hunt for new trade-objects?

Yes.
They have been here, but not as much in winter. They have hung out in Gen D forum, events, and in tech forum for repairs/maint threads, usually avoiding the mod threads. I don't know if they hung out in FS forum - I don't, but I would if I had extra cash laying around (I'd like a 10th vert, and those will be hard to find).

Garry · Post by **Garry** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:03 pm

Well, finding one for collector's reasons here in Germany is close to impossible ... I know of one other Firehawk, owned by an active duty American in Bavaria (and also member of F-Body Europe), _heavily_ modded, another Firehawk is listed in the owners database, name and location tend to look like it's an american, too, tried to contact him, but haven't received an answer. That's probably about all ... so until I meet another german Firehawk owner, I guess I'll just pretend I'm the only german in Germany that has one

Guess that makes it more exclusive than a stinkin' Ferrari, Viper, or whatever

01 Hawk 42 · Post by **01 Hawk 42** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:53 am

I think one should drop an LS1 in a Gremlin with a ram air hood. Now THAT would be cool! Take that to the track.