FL Chalet #1677 in New Smyrna Beach [ 7/12/25 edit: "So ya won a Chalet in a raffle for $30 - now what?" ]

[a77blazerchalet]

1976 Chevrolet K5 Blazer Cheyenne Chalet Camper - cars & trucks - by...

1976 Chevrolet K5 Blazer Cheyenne Chalet Camper (41,172 Miles) - 350 Cubic Inch - Automatic Transmission - 4 Barrel Carburetor - Air Conditioning - Power Brakes - Power Steering - Cruise Control -...

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Built in 12/76, and yes, it's a '77, but tragically under the temporary ownership of its prior owner (weeks, at most I think, back in the spring of this year), its roof blew off between Alabama and Colorado. It now has the roof off the gutted '76 Chalet #0505 orphaned camper unit. Look carefully enough in the background photos, and you'll see my former #1747 Chalet. He owns the incorrectly repainted #1457 Casa Grande, too, and has it for sale on FB Marketplace (and just a day ago on Craigslist: https://daytona.craigslist.org/cto/d/new-smyrna-beach-1977-gmc-jimmy-casa/7417411310.html ).

 

[a77blazerchalet]

Worthy of a drama-filled update, this one. The above December 2021 New Smyrna Beach seller also put this #1677 Chalet in a listing at FB Marketplace at the same time, which still functions today, except it has the label "Sold $22,000" on it. I highly doubt that was the actual sale price. Who knows how FB Marketplace allows long out-of-date listings like that to stay online when others disappear after a vehicle is sold.

Unknown to me at a later time during one of my random Google images searches for these rigs, I turned it up again in October 2024 at a Yuma AZ hot rod shop's TikTok video, but I simply did not recognize it all shined up and with the '76 roof painted black. Apart from creating a TikTok account (which I refuse to do), I couldn't find any other way to contact that shop to find out which rig it was.

Next I saw of it - still not recognizing it - was in announcements of what was going to be auctioned at the April 2025 Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Florida auction. One of my pals alerted me to its auction result, and then told me a day or three later that he was in direct contact with the winning bidder through the "K5 Blazer" FB group, and that guy sent him a photo of the serial number. I'd already noticed the somewhat suspect bits of vinyl hanging down in one the Barrett-Jackson site photos, but my pal told me the winner was an online bidder and had not seen it in person --- the day it was delivered to him, he saw how the whole roof underside was totally wrecked. He put in an immediate claim with Barrett-Jackson, and my pal informed me that the guy got some kind of compensation right away from the seller and then turned around and flipsaled it through a vehicle dealer network he belonged to, where the buyer was located somewhere in Pennsylvania. Said the guy got all of the auction money back from that sale.

Fast forward to another of my totally random Google images searches a couple weeks back, where one of the results was of that same #1677 Chalet being offered on June 11 as a raffle item at a Facebook account page to raise cash for a volunteer fire department in the Punxsutawney, PA area. They thank a "Stump Creek Auto" for the rig right at the top. Took forever to sift through that dept's raffle item posts to find the drawing on June 13th, and if I have it right, they sold 1,414 tickets at $30 a pop. Do the math, that ends up being over $42 grand .... for a rig that the "Stump Creek Auto Sales" outfit likely paid no more than $19 grand for, along with whatever it took to bring it up to PA.

Just like the Yuma AZ shop, the Stump Creek dealer has no website I could find, but when I did a search of their name, up popped a GoogleStreetMobile drive-by of their place sometime in early June 2025 with #1677 parked out front. And they then donated it for free to the fire department??

I saw within the raffle drawing video post comments that one commenter was a niece of the raffle winner who congratulated him and linked to his FB account, so I sent that guy a FB Message to say I knew of the roof problem and guys who know how to fix it. No reply from him yet.

 

[sweetk30]

If the fb person does NOT delete the listing that is how it stays up for ever .

 

[a77blazerchalet]

Aha - having never listed anything in FB Marketplace (never will, either), I have no idea how that system works at all. What I've been used to for going on two decades is how Craigslist ads and eBay listings, along with other places like the KSL ads in Utah, all have a limited shelf life, which is why I get screengrabs to have for paper printouts as soon as I spot or am alerted to any new ad listing.

 

[a77blazerchalet]

The main reason I get screengrabs of any Chalet or Casa Grande sales ad listing is because they can disappear sometimes in an instant off the internet. One of my eagle-eyed pals spotted the FB Marketplace listing last week of this Chalet #1677 by the lucky $30 raffle winner. Funny, because I'd managed to finally connect with the lucky winner only a few weeks before on Facebook, where I offered some of the sordid details of how this rig lost its roof at the hands of a prior owner/flipsaler, along with some other details of how last year's Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach Florida auction went bad over the auction lister shop owner's failure to disclose the massive problem with the roof being non-original and probably non-functional at all. I also mentioned how I knew of two other guys doing restorations of these including extensive roof rebuilds who'd be glad to offer help on getting his back to being usable. He thanked me at the end of that conversation, I was guessing it was a keeper for him. Upon seeing this latest raffle winner's $26 grand listing, I first got a screengrab of it, then I politely reminded him of our weeks' prior FB Messages conversation about its condition, and I suggested he might want to revise his listing description about what he knows of the roof condition.

He yanked the listing by early the next morning. Would be interesting to see if he puts out a revised listing, and what his asking price would be.

 

[HankScorpio]

You take the largest sale price you can find online, value your truck at the same price and then donate it to charity for a huge tax write off. Stump creek auto likely had a $150,000 charitable contribution that year.