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TX (Feb 2025 update) Mecum Dallas Sept 2024 auction GMC Jimmy Casa Grande #1299

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Popcorn time next week. I ID'd this one after I was alerted to it in June over at the Chalets/Casa Grandes spotted thread. It appears that the seller pulled his Clarence Iowa FB MArketplace listing, but the entry for it at the seller's classic car dealership is not in the "Sold" section, so it is a safe guess that they could not unload it for the $44,900 asking price. Silodrome had a writeup on it yesterday, which is how I learned about it. "True survivor condition throughout" is not exactly an accurate term for this rig, really, "Modded survivor" perhaps, since the whole driver's side cabinets in the back are a major alteration to what was originally there. When it was on the Bring a Trailer auction site in July last year, it had the giant rack on the back that the longtime owners had put on it. The ending bid there is what prompted me to comment about the current seller's optimisitic asking price in our "Spotted" thread here.

I'm guessing the Mecum auction title is a result of some non-gar guy tasked with writing these up who does not know the difference between a short bed pickup and a unibody Jimmy.

1977 GMC Jimmy High Sierra Camper Pickup

1977 GMC Jimmy High Sierra Camper Pickup For Sale At Auction - Mecum Auctions

View the 1977 GMC Jimmy High Sierra Camper Pickup for sale at Dallas 2024 in Dallas, Texas as F140.
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Looks to be pretty nice on the surface, no? Where do you think it will hammer? $25k-30k and RNM?
 
These days, two monkey wrenches factor in concerning auction-winning bids. The first is 'Biden-flation' where the prices for everything in recent years has doubled. The second factor is the level of knowledge a bidder has about these rigs. From what I've seen over the years, the top-end dollar value is in rigs coming (or appearing to, anyway) factory showroom new appearance. The much-modded Chalet #0258 at a classic car dealership topped out at $15,100 in its last eBay auction. Chalet #1751, in arguably closer to factory original (it is also missing its camper stripes), remains unsold at $18,000 after 5 1/2months of being listed on FB Marketplace. Chalet #0828 (also missing its stripes) could not get past $18, 250 in its reserve-not-met Bat 2023 auction. Somehow the flipsaler of that one found a gullible buyer for around that price, that person initially tried to flip it for $45,000 but relisted it several times with big markdowns (the last listing from that guy is still strangely functioning) until the current seller in Port St Lucie bought it and immediately tried to flip days later it for $119,000. Last I saw, the guy was still unable to sell it after multiple markdowns to $49,000.

Chalet #0058 pretty well set the value in concrete in its 2022 Barrett-Jackson $30,000 winning bid for rigs needing just some more improvement (it's repainted stripes are incorrectly colored) to reach 'showroom new' (a subsequent buyer of it who was duped into paying more to the auction winner/classic car flipsaler was livid about not knowing its prior B-J auction price). If you factor out the final top 3 bidders as anomalies in the $125,000 BaT auction of Chalet #0429, it's real-world value as an alleged 'time capsule' unrestored pristine original rig topped out at $47,500, after all the other bidders bailed out at that point (I have issues with that one, it had a used car dealership plate on the back). I feel sorry for the Mecum Florida auction winner of Casa Grande #1457 at $53,900, who likely thought he was getting a rig restored to factory original when its paint, stripes, interior bits were far off the mark.

This #1299 Casa Grande might shine up nice, the '77s with pastel paint jobs often do, but it is of course missing its camper stripes / back door decal, and those patch panels over the furnace grille / refrigerator grille / sink drain are really unsightly. The current seller got it from the October 2023 Big Iron auction for $26,000, and Big Iron was the auction winner of it at the BaT auction. So the question is, what would have sold for if these flipsalers hadn't bid on it? That's pretty much the situation with the bulk of these rigs, being basically artificially inflated in value by flipsalers who only intend to make profits out of them from buyers who do no research on the sales histories of them.

If I was a betting man with cash (I am neither at the moment), I'd go with $18-$20,000 with RNM by a wide margin. The seller probably has the reserve at $40,000, these guys get greedy with big name auctions.
 
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Juh-eeeeeze. So this lucky seller cleaned up with around a $10 grand profit while doing basically nothing to improve it, while yet another bidder wins it who hasn't done an iota of background sales history research on these. Wait for it, this Casa Grande will be appearing next at double the price at some classic car dealership with the description "Mint original unrestored survivor" in 10... 9... 8... 7...
 
Yep, I'm in the wrong business, trying to make a little headway with my meager little pile of mutual funds, when I should have snagged another Chalet for cheap, then spit-shine polish it and score double or triple or more at Mecum auctions.
 
So says the little note on his video. Wouldn't be the first time a guy has announced his purchase of one of these and then said in some note that it was for sale the same day. The flipsaler who got Chalet #1683 put his rig on Bring a Trailer barely 4 weeks after he announced his "camping" plans, where it topped out at $24 grand+ after he supposedly bought it for $45 grand … or at least that's what the status said on the FB Marketplace listing by the guy he bought it from …

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Oops, forgot to update the Mecum auction winner / flipsaler of this one, via the FB Marketplace ad he put out just 48 or so days after he won the thing. Still not sold as of today, Dec 22. Screengrab I got back on Oct 23rd, no drop in price so far, just a couple thou above what he won it for ...

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New listing as of yesterday by the short term owner, who got it last fall at the Mecum auction and has not been able to sell it yet, $4400 price drop. He's added a line about "1 of 17 still in existence", except I think he just made that up. A GM rep told me many years back that the factory could only account for 1,555 of the Blazer Chalets in the two years of production, but lost the figures for the Casa Grandes. The total production figure for all being "1,780" sources only from the 2nd paragraph of this 1979 Treasure Search magazine (linky -- click on the image to enlarge it, it's a scan our CK5 man Dremu created years ago at his old Slosh site), but it's just an educated guess that the now-dead author of that article got the figure from an ex-Chinook employee.

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sure looks like a 4" lift with them 35" tires filling in a lot .

were is all the body stripes ?

records for current owner :rotfl:

and yes 1 of 17 left known to exist :sign9:
 
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New listing as of yesterday by the short term owner, who got it last fall at the Mecum auction and has not been able to sell it yet, $4400 price drop. He's added a line about "1 of 17 still in existence", except I think he just made that up. A GM rep told me many years back that the factory could only account for 1,555 of the Blazer Chalets in the two years of production, but lost the figures for the Casa Grandes. The total production figure for all being "1,780" sources only from the 2nd paragraph of this 1979 Treasure Search magazine (linky -- click on the image to enlarge it, it's a scan our CK5 man Dremu created years ago at his old Slosh site), but it's just an educated guess that the now-dead author of that article got the figure from an ex-Chinook employee.

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Looks like a lower level trim unless they changed it.
Mine had a sink and fridge with the space heater on the side he shows shelves and a cooler.
He does however have the cots which where part of the highest level trim C which Mine was
 
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