AZ Chalet #0058 at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction Jan 26 ...... again

[a77blazerchalet]

https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1976-CHEVROLET-K5-BLAZER-251787

Question is, will it bomb out for the seller like it did at the 2009 Barrett-Jackson auction? Back then, a different hapless CA classic car dealer/flipper had apparently bought it from a North Carolina auction for $17 grand, then was offering it for $24 grand, but then took it to the no-reserved Scottsdale B-J auction with no front driveshaft and a rattlecan black underside, where its final bid was $9,350 (archive link shows the price, but the current version of the '09 page does not). The current dealer/flipper is, if I have my count right, the 4th owner after the '09 B-J auction.

No Interior photos at the above 2022 B-J page, but the Wyoming dealer/flipper's page has those. Last I saw at his one now-expired Craigslist ad, he was asking $39,900 for it.

 

[ZooMad75]

I am very curious to see what it will pull at the auction. My bet is the seller is totally seeing $$$ with the one that went nuts on bring a trailer.

I’m not sorry to see them fail at no reserve.

 

[Wes Harden]

Ima gonna bid 5k

 

[a77blazerchalet]

Only got $30 grand, for those who didn't see the results.

 

[a77blazerchalet]

The saga continues, for those wondering. Ya snoozed at the Barrett-Jackson on this one, ya lost. It is now for sale this few weeks later in a Mankato MN classic car dealership ............ for just short of double the ending B-K auction sale price:

https://www.uniqueclassiccars.com/vehicles/3063/1976-chevrolet-k5-blazer-chalet

 

[a77blazerchalet]

Update on this #0058 rig: It was sold by the Unique Classics place, and the new owner contacted me via my 'filtering' email address at the BlazerChalet website a couple of days ago.

Without giving away many details, he was impressed with their photos of it ....... and disappointed with seeing the thing in-person in living 3D after he bought it. It's a keeper for him, he plans on fixing what the Unique Classics folks didn't tell the public about, and its faults are not to the level of demanding his money back, but he's another example in the ongoing lesson that if you are really interested in buying a particular one - no matter how good it looks in photos - the best advice in the world is to go and see the vehicle in person.