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Blazer values keep skyrocketing...

Keitha

Keitha

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Nuts!
 
I always wonder about some of the high dollar listings I see, they are listed at those prices but are they selling?
 
Some dude out here in AZ had nice 1972 blazer lifted on 35’s for $38,000 not sure what he got but it sold...
 
If you follow Hogieshine on IG, he's got a 1st Gen going to Barrett Jackson that he's projecting to get $200K for. It's super nice, but $200K?!
 
Yes the market is strong but I don't believe the hype. There will always be some very nice restored or original trucks that bring top dollar from a collector. On the other hand a guy I know had a super clean K5 with a 3" lift and a 454 in it. Really nice truck, professional mechanic/ shop owner. He let it go after 6 months trying to sell it for $3500. Lots of lookers but nobody with real money. The local pawn shop has a sign "Your item is only worth what someone will offer you on the day you want to sell it", very true statement. Pricing trucks is a funny thing and becomes even more difficult when you are looking at nationwide pricing.
 
The site I linked is all Sold Blazers. 15 sold for North of $50,000 since July.
 
This K5 Blazer is now offered with a clean Colorado title in the name of the seller’s business.

Sounds like he cashed out from his business. Sell your rig to your business for an insane amount of money...
 
mrk5 said:
I always wonder about some of the high dollar listings I see, they are listed at those prices but are they selling?
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The black dots in the BaT graphs are auctions that met reserve and actually SOLD..... the white dots are auctions where RESERVE was not met and the truck didn't sell.

I always look at the meaty part of the scatterplot and ignore the very high / very low dots as outliers... in this market $25K is a strong cluster, and there is another cluster around the $50K mark.... probably the difference between a nice, runner and a well-restored investment grade piece.


-G
 
I didn't even notice the white dots in there, but that was on my phone. I can see them now on the computer.
 
Thank the socialists. The possibility of civil unrest is creating false demand. Imo of course. Doesn't help that a K5 played a prominent role in the near ELE (extinction level event) in the novel "Lucifers Hammer"....

Ramchargers and full size Broncos are crazy high also...not to mention old Wagoneers.
 
Keitha said:
... chart here is from Bring a Trailer. Follow the link and you can see the detail of all the sales.
https://bringatrailer.com/chevrolet/blazer/
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At the bottom of that linked page is their "Stories" section where they show two '76 Blazer Chalets. The first one is Chalet #0510 with the big lift (and a variety of basic restoration faults), and to this day, I can't establish that it was ever actually sold for its $35k asking price. The other one is Chalet #0414 with the weird rattlecan black paint on the topmost front part of the pop-up roof. The third time was the "charm" for it being listed on ebay were it sold for nearly $17k, after having been returned to the classic car dealer/flipper at least two times because of its undisclosed engine knock problem. The dealer listed its camper interior as being "mint" when it actually was a recent incorrectly done reupholstery job. Two months prior to the trio of ebay listings, it was listed at Craigslist for just $5500, in the otherwise identical superficial spit-shine appearance but with the older incorrect reupholstered cloth seats, where it was missing the passenger side cabinets that never got replaced.

A person would have to do some serious gumshoe detective investigation interviews to find out why some guys have no problem with pouring buckets of money on particular vehicles when it wouldn't take that much additional effort to find out if they could have bought them for half as much from private sellers. Whoever bought Chalet #0414 off ebay could have paid the $5500 two months earlier, and then spend maybe another $5 to $7k for a deadnuts accurate restoration, thus having a much better rig for just $12k, rather than laying out $17k where there's still the prospect of shelling out that same restoration money to fix it up back to showroom new condition.

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TJ1978 said:
Just be thankful we bought ours before the prices went crazy.

As an example
Check out this 1972 k5 Chevy blazer for $7,500 on OfferUp.
https://offerup.co/8KAFhMczQbb
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Yes...this. For me it was just in the nick of time. I am sure that there was time when Chevelle and Corvette enthusiasts went through this very thing. Probably could buy them for $300 and then all of a sudden the prices skyrocketed and then they were gone. I just don't think anybody ever thought it would happen to trucks. I also believe that there is still an underground of Blazer folks like the members of CK5 that know how to and are willing to find the Blazers in less than great condition at relatively affordable prices and there is a new group of people that are interested in buying them already fixed up and willing to pay whatever it takes to get one. Maybe they used to buy classic cars and that market is dwindling in available numbers and they are now looking at trucks which are quickly becoming the new replacement for classic muscle cars?


You also have to factor in that we are a dwindling generation that even have the ambition to do our own work.
 
Every year there’s less functional and/or restorable vehicles of a certain age.

prices are not standard, lots of nice 50k dollar trucks and even a few worth 75.
The average first gen is a 15k dollar rig at beat and one can buy a driver for 6-10 still.

You can still buy 15k dollar 69 Camaros too. Barret Jackson isn’t reality any more than all k5 being worth 6k tops. It’s a very wide variable.
 
i don't know if anybody remembers that glorious federal program called "cash for clunkers" whereby any idiot could drop off a carcass and get thousands of your hard earned tax dollars for it. i'm guessing that is partly to blame but in a way it does help inflate the value of our rigs
 
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I'd like to see the statistics or numbers of known existing 1st and 2nd Gen Blazers. What kind of numbers are out there after the cash for clunkers and 45 year +
 
Here are the first 4 scrolls for AZ offer up as of today. It’s a bit all over in price. I can’t comment on the “features” for each add but here are the pics used to generate interest.

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