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Finally ID'd Chalet #0998 in Iran (?) - anybody speak the languages there?

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I've basically known about this one since 2011 from assorted Google search image results out of Instagram (I've never gotten around to signing up for that system), but I could never ID its camper serial number. Finally today, I caught this 1 minute 5 second Instagram video where right at the end, the vehicle show presenter got his cameraman to get right up close to the serial number plate. I wondered at first why the opening video text said "Blazer 1977" but that's true at least from the "7BCA00998" serial number and the "10/76" build date. '77 model year camper units always start the beginning of the total SN with a "7" and '76s always start with a "6". As near as I can tell from the build dates I've gathered in my mega-spreadsheet so far, the '76 model year camper units end in 8/76. I have not yet found out what the "BCA" stands for, and my habit has always been to ID these by the last 4 digits.

If the Blazer is original to the camper unit, the owner or prior owner must've repainted it and the camper unit in 1976 model year colors. Sorta. It's a much-modded rig, no doubt about that.

Anybody able to translate what the Instagram video presenter is saying?

#0998 Chalet SN tag.jpg
 
I've basically known about this one since 2011 from assorted Google search image results out of Instagram (I've never gotten around to signing up for that system), but I could never ID its camper serial number. Finally today, I caught this 1 minute 5 second Instagram video where right at the end, the vehicle show presenter got his cameraman to get right up close to the serial number plate. I wondered at first why the opening video text said "Blazer 1977" but that's true at least from the "7BCA00998" serial number and the "10/76" build date. '77 model year camper units always start the beginning of the total SN with a "7" and '76s always start with a "6". As near as I can tell from the build dates I've gathered in my mega-spreadsheet so far, the '76 model year camper units end in 8/76. I have not yet found out what the "BCA" stands for, and my habit has always been to ID these by the last 4 digits.

If the Blazer is original to the camper unit, the owner or prior owner must've repainted it and the camper unit in 1976 model year colors. Sorta. It's a much-modded rig, no doubt about that.

Anybody able to translate what the Instagram video presenter is saying?

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He is Persian so unfortunately I don't speak it but I have a couple of friends that do, I will ask them.
The truck is in Iran and has Iranian plates
 

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