Bear Hawk Value

[MadInventor]

A friend has offered me a well used bear hawk for £10. It's been well used, the bottom of the chassis and the lower wishbones are covered in fine scratches, and the rear gearbox casing is kaput. The wheels are originals but have been 'kerbed', lots of small dings in them, and the tyres are just about worn out(about 30% tread left). The shocks and springs are missing but I have a set of mad bull pogo sticks which I think might be the same size??? (Can anyone confirm if they are the same) The good news is that the bodyshell looks intact, no cracks or splits or significant scratching, but it needs dunking in brake fluid and repainting. Now my question is: Is it worth a tenner buy to do up and sell on? I have no interest in running it, but thought I might get a new gear casing, re-assemble it, repaint the shell, and sell it on. I've got no idea what the desirability or value of these things is, they look to me like one of tamiyas budget entry bashers. I don't want to spend cash on parts to do it up if it's only going to be worth £30 when it's finished.

[Wez-li]

I think a boxed runner went for about £50 on ebay last week.

[Gruntfuggly]

I doubt you'll make any money on it if you are planning to do it up and sell it - you'll never get the value back from any parts you replace. Unless you've already got the parts required to get it running so you can sell it on as a running chassis, I wouldn't bother. You'd probably get more splitting up into parts and selling them separately. If the chassis tub is in one piece that might get you your money back on it's own...

[mike_o]

It's the Stadium Blitzer family, I think...

[Percymon]

By the time you spend 5 hours and £20-30 on parts, you'll not see any profit at all.

I saw one go through ebay, in probably similar condition for £25 including the postage a few weeks back (tem number 320620614913 for reference), but i doubt you'd get £50 for a restored one, even in the run up to Xmas. A NIB one sold for £102 recently. There's a used one on ebay currently at £30 starting price.

For a tenner its worth someone buying, but sounds like that person isn't you as its of little interest.

[TA-Mark]

It's the Stadium Blitzer family, I think...

They are part of the Blitzer family. The Bear Hawk comes with pogo stick shocks, 2.0" wheels and a slightly different gearbox and internals for different size pinions and gears. Parts in the Blitzer vs Bear Hawk gearbox are not interchangable, but the entire gearbox is. Bear Hawk uses 19T or 17T pinion, Blitzer uses 13T or 15T pinion (allows for the larger wheels or great if you want to put brushless into a Bear Hawk).

I wouldn't call the Bear Hawk an entry level buggy, that would be a DT01 with it's live axle rear end and single wishbone front suspension. I would put it that next step up from entry level with double wishbone suspension on all 4 corners.

The Bear Hawk does have a hard body, which is one of the things I like most about it. You can make it look quite scale with a few extras.

Resale value isn't great, especially if you need to start replacing parts. I would only get one if you intend to use it.