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Recomputed 5 Nov 2026, 03:30 UTC

One year of the Chris-Craft Continental run, 1955–1961

1956 Chris-Craft
Continental value

A 1956 Chris-Craft Continental is worth about £22,500€26,000$30,000 in today's asking prices, most likely between £14,500€17,000$18,000 and £61,500€71,000$81,000. Based on 11 comparable boats built between 1955 and 1959, 5 of them in 1956.

Gauge Estimate · 1956
Indicative · 11 comparable boats
£22,500€26,000$30,000

Likely range £14,500€17,000$18,000 – £61,500€71,000$81,000

5 boats built 1956 · 11 built 1955–1959 · listed since Aug 2020, in today's prices · any hours · every market alike · asking, not sold

in pounds

VAT is not measured for this model yet (0 of 11 boats state it paid, 0 not paid), so it does not move the estimate.

Enter the asking price from a listing to see where it sits against the 1956 boats and the likely range.

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The 1956 boats

Every Chris-Craft Continental built in 1956 that we have observed since Aug 2020, cheapest first in today's prices. Derived facts only: no seller, no listing, month not day.

asked $18,000 ≈ £15,000 cut 18% · listed 37 monthslisted in the US market · seen Oct 2023, below the likely range
asked $21,900 ≈ £18,000lying in the US · seen Jul 2022, inside the likely range
asked $32,500 ≈ £24,000lying in the US · seen Aug 2025, inside the likely range
asked $95,000 ≈ £71,000lying in the US · seen Aug 2025, above the likely range
asked $112,000 ≈ £84,500lying in the US · 5 h · seen May 2025, above the likely range

2 of 5 sit inside the likely range (hollow diamonds). Each boat is placed at its ask in today's prices and labelled with the price as asked and the month we saw it; a cut shows its size, and how long we have seen the boat listed so far. How we measure.

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Either side of 1956

The rest of the run on the same scale, in today's asking prices. The bar is each year's middle half (from ten boats), the tick its median (from five). Years with a page of their own are linked.

1955—2 boats · no page yet
1956£22,5005 boats
1957–1961—7 boats · fewer than five a year

We don't carry this boat forward yet: the Chris-Craft Continental has no published depreciation curve. A curve needs 20 boats across 6 build years; we have 14 boats across 5 build years.

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Specification

What the listings say about the Chris-Craft Continental: each figure is the median, or the most common value, of the boats that state it, unless a source is cited.

Length overall
6.64 mfrom listings: median of 12
Beam
2.41 mfrom listings: median of 8
Engines
Singlefrom listings: 8 of 8
Engine power
163 hpfrom listings: median of 6
Fuel
Petrolfrom listings: 9 of 9
Build years seen
1955–1961from listings: 14 boats
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Questions about the 1956 Chris-Craft Continental

How much is a 1956 Chris-Craft Continental worth?

A 1956 Chris-Craft Continental is worth about £22,500 in today's asking prices, most likely between £14,500 and £61,500. Based on 11 comparable boats built between 1955 and 1959, 5 of them in 1956.

What do 1956 Chris-Craft Continentals ask?

The 5 boats built in 1956 that we observed asked a median of £22,500 in today's prices. Each boat is counted once, at its latest asking price; these are asking prices, not sale prices.

Are these sold prices?

No. Every figure here is built from asking prices seen on public listings. Boats usually sell for less than they ask; we do not yet measure by how much, so we never print a sold price as ours.