The FGX as the ultimate enthusiast collectors falcon?

[Wretched]

Collectiable Falcon?
Any that had a racing heritage, that was homologated for racing.
The obvious being the GTHO P3. However I would suspect the GTHO P2 being more of a collector, it was more raw from all reports.
More so, the GTHO IV.

The rest? debatable. Later models? ED Sprint may be, but hard to think of any besides the FG F6 maybe.

[Bolly47]

What about Petrol Turbo Ghia Territory ????

[Stefan]

Originally Posted by Wretched

Collectiable Falcon?
Any that had a racing heritage, that was homologated for racing.
The obvious being the GTHO P3. However I would suspect the GTHO P2 being more of a collector, it was more raw from all reports.
More so, the GTHO IV.

Spot on.

I think some of the guys really have no idea why the old bangers are so collectible....homologation race cars...

Ask yourself why are EB and EL GTs essentially worthless, EB is now 25 years old and worth jack, a fraction of it's 1992 new price. An XY GT in 1996 was worth 3 or 4 times more than it's new price of 1971. See the trend. The other plastic GTs will be worthless too like the EB. FGX will be worth even less......

[nstg8a]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Spot on.

I think some of the guys really have no idea why the old bangers are so collectible....homologation race cars...

Ask yourself why are EB and EL GTs essentially worthless, EB is now 25 years old and worth jack, a fraction of it's 1992 new price. An XY GT in 1996 was worth 3 or 4 times more than it's new price of 1971. See the trend. The other plastic GTs will be worthless too like the EB. FGX will be worth even less......

I wish was rich enough to consider cars that are worth 20-30k worthless..



The reality is no one knows what's going to happen to values over the next few years because it's never happened. You can't use Mitsubishi as a guide, totally different class of owners/enthusiasts.

[Sprintey]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Spot on.

I think some of the guys really have no idea why the old bangers are so collectible....homologation race cars...

Ask yourself why are EB and EL GTs essentially worthless, EB is now 25 years old and worth jack, a fraction of it's 1992 new price. An XY GT in 1996 was worth 3 or 4 times more than it's new price of 1971. See the trend. The other plastic GTs will be worthless too like the EB. FGX will be worth even less......

Totally agree with you on the homologation race car bit, those models will always be worth the most. But also the reason an XY in 1996 was worth so much more was the inflation of the time period - GTHO was $4400 or so in '71, by early 1980s the equivalents top/lux models were blowing out to $12000. (1971 Houses 17K? Av wage 2500-5000? lolol) Then it continued on up... In the early 70's Wheels sold their XYGS302 tester for more than what they purchased it for!

As for EB GT, memory recalls about 60K ask price circa 1993, look at FGX Sprints, 25 years later they are cheaper! So we've had deflation in car prices in this time. Accelerated depreciation in used cars. Apples and Apples. But yes the P3GTHO never went down in nominal value if the old stories are true.

The money will be in those early models you could race, and in those amazing XA-C coupes.

[sprintman1]

Originally Posted by Wretched

Collectiable Falcon?
Any that had a racing heritage, that was homologated for racing.
The obvious being the GTHO P3. However I would suspect the GTHO P2 being more of a collector, it was more raw from all reports.
More so, the GTHO IV.

The rest? debatable. Later models? ED Sprint may be, but hard to think of any besides the FG F6 maybe.

Phase II HO was a bit of a beast