Greetings!
Brought home another Hawk this week, a 1964 4 speed car with no engine, lots of good parts and lots of "custom" touches, like armor clad BX wiring, roof flashing screwed to the sides of the car and trunk as decorative trim, bottoms of the doors and trunk lid taped up with metal tape, etc. source of lots of laughter all around. Poster child on why to never buy a car by pictures alone, it actually doesn't look terrible in the pictures!
Anyway I bought it for a few things for the 1957 Golden Hawk and the 1961 Hawk, but I have some questions for the guys who know.
This car has obviously been thrown together at some point by someone who may have been a small job handyman based on the wiring and woodwork on the dash, but what is strange is this car has one fiberglass fender and one fiberglass quarter panel. (They put the roof flashing on both, even though the glass fender didn't have rust LOL). I have read that the aftermarket made fiberglass fenders, but did they make fiberglass quarters as well? I will be taking it all off to sell in the future, but was surprised to find it.
Engine was taken by the previous owner to fix another Hawk, so I got it as a roller with the 4 speed setup still there, a 4 wheel disc conversion kit installed, and I think a 4bbl intake (have to confirm, has an adapter on it to go to a Holley square bore carb) along with a lot of other parts so it was a good buy as a donor.
One more question, car has a gold hawk painted under the hood, is that factory? Also has no front bumper and some kind of valence down low, maybe in place of the bumper?
Almost forgot! The glove box has a tag that says the Hawk was specially made for someone, is that a factory thing or just some JC Whitney deal?
Brought home another Hawk this week, a 1964 4 speed car with no engine, lots of good parts and lots of "custom" touches, like armor clad BX wiring, roof flashing screwed to the sides of the car and trunk as decorative trim, bottoms of the doors and trunk lid taped up with metal tape, etc. source of lots of laughter all around. Poster child on why to never buy a car by pictures alone, it actually doesn't look terrible in the pictures!
Anyway I bought it for a few things for the 1957 Golden Hawk and the 1961 Hawk, but I have some questions for the guys who know.
This car has obviously been thrown together at some point by someone who may have been a small job handyman based on the wiring and woodwork on the dash, but what is strange is this car has one fiberglass fender and one fiberglass quarter panel. (They put the roof flashing on both, even though the glass fender didn't have rust LOL). I have read that the aftermarket made fiberglass fenders, but did they make fiberglass quarters as well? I will be taking it all off to sell in the future, but was surprised to find it.
Engine was taken by the previous owner to fix another Hawk, so I got it as a roller with the 4 speed setup still there, a 4 wheel disc conversion kit installed, and I think a 4bbl intake (have to confirm, has an adapter on it to go to a Holley square bore carb) along with a lot of other parts so it was a good buy as a donor.
One more question, car has a gold hawk painted under the hood, is that factory? Also has no front bumper and some kind of valence down low, maybe in place of the bumper?
Almost forgot! The glove box has a tag that says the Hawk was specially made for someone, is that a factory thing or just some JC Whitney deal?
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