<VV> 2 or 4 door Corvairs ?

[Bill Elliott]

Until your conclusion, your reasoning is excellent... but you must 
actively avoid the implication that "rare" equates to "desirable" or 
"valuable"... rarity plays a part in both desirability and value, but 
not the driving role (otherwise my collection of unusual cars would be 
making me richer rather than poorer! ;-) )

Since supply is pretty much static, for a late 4 door hardtop  (happy 
Mark?... saw your letter in Hemmings Classics as well....) to surpass a 
turbo 2 door hardtop in value (which I assume from the context is how 
you intended to measure "collectability") would require demand to change 
dramatically... and frankly I don't see that happening.

Bill

Arlette Carl wrote:

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>I read with interest the comments about how many doors a Corvair should have.
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>It's my observation that the rarest style of collector car in the future will very likely be the four (4) door pillar less hardtop or Sport Sedan. Why do I believe this?
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>Consider the following:'
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>1. Chevrolet built 4 door hardtops for only twenty (20) years. From 1956 to 1976.
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>2. Almost every country in the world that ever built cars, at some stage or another offered a 2 door hardtop, but few outside the USA offered 4 door Hardtops. The Japanese offered a four door hardtop in the mid 1980s. The Germans offered a 4 door hardtop Mercedes Benz for a couple of years in the early 1960s. But that's the extent of it.
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>3. Their are even still one or two genuine 2 hardtops offered in current model cars. Take a lot look at a new Bentley coupe for example, but 4 hardtops sadly are unlikely to return which in time will make them unique.
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>4. Most car shows display line after line of restored 2 door hardtops, but few 4 door hardtops.
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>5. Many 4 doors hardtops have been broken up and used to restore yet another 2 door hardtop.
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>6. 1965-1967 Corvair 4 door hardtops are even more interesting in that they are quite probably the smallest 4 door hardtops ever offered.
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>In my view a late model Corvair 4 door hardtop in a desirable colour combination with lots of rare and correct options is very likely to become as collectable as a Corsa 180 hp 4 speed coupe .
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>Don't under value any 4 door hardtop.
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>Regards
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>Carl L. Kelsen
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>RHD 1965 MONZA CONVERTIBLE
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>MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
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