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IN Hemmings ad - Chalet #1683 now $20k overpriced

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God save me from classic car dealer/flippers. I first saw this one in a 2010 Butte Montana Craigslist ad in a condition basically identical to what it is now (except minus the super duper wax job), listed for $8k. Then it ended up in the Indiana collection along with my former Chalet #1747 and eleven others and an assortment of Toyota Landcruisers. Who knows what that was all about, beyond the fact that the eccentric buyer had cash to burn. Then the collection moved to Tennessee where the collection was liquidated. Chalet #1683 then languished unsold in several Hemmings Motor News ads for nearly $17 grand. Then it went most recently to the mid May Mecum Indy auction with one heckuva spit shine, sold for an amount I didn't catch.

Now its back on Hemmings https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/chevrolet/blazer/2284809.html via its latest classic car dealer flipper, with an asking price of $29,900, and a claim that it won't last long at that price. If nobody snapped it up while at the prior dealer's place before, how does it stand to reason that it won't last long at a price increase of $13k?

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The plot gets thicker. Since so many of these are starting to run together on me, I had forgotten that some guy on Imgur spotted this rig at a St. Charles MO lot (Schroeder Motors, as it says on the diamond sign in the background, a.k.a. corvettecapital . com) back in late April, where somebody else in that comment thread asked if it had a $24 grand selling price.

Now this two-day old story says somebody actually bought it from the Indiana dealer for $29 grand. Man! Do I feel sorry for the new owner, when he finds out how much he overpaid for it.

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I would love to find one of the shells close to me, it'd be gone quick. Even the four wheel camper version
 
CaveBlazin said:
A few days ago here around Nashville. https://nashville.craigslist.org/pts/d/brentwood-1977-k5-chalet-camper/6933006461.html
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That one is Chalet #1196 built in 9/76, the seller unsuccessfully listed it in a November "make offer" Craigslist ad. The uphill struggle for him is its sheer bad condition. $200 tops.

Desert_K5 said:
I would love to find one of the shells close to me, it'd be gone quick. Even the four wheel camper version
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Keep an eye on the map I have at the free-to-view homepage for our Chalet forum. If I can find time, I'll get an newer update into it sometime soon. The orphaned shell units are the push-pin shape markers.
 
FYI, it's being flipped again, now on ebay. with the latest seller making unsupportable claims about its 'original condition' items. It was a partial restoration back in late 2009 and/or early 2010:

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1977 Chevrolet Blazer BLAZER CHALET 53,000 ACTUAL MILE SURVIVOR RARE 1/1800 MADE | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 1977 Chevrolet Blazer BLAZER CHALET 53,000 ACTUAL MILE SURVIVOR RARE 1/1800 MADE at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
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The original carpet is original.......original canvas is original. How many more times could the seller use original? :eek1:
 
Mold on the canvas is not original, must have been added later! Also the duct tape on the windshield washer tank, looks to be vintage, but definitely not original!
 
If you just type that the carpet is original, I guess it is. Obviously the grill and many parts are numbers matching. :surepal: Caveat Emptor.
 
Desert_K5 said:
....How many more times could the seller use original? :eek1:
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Swamped as I was with other things when I read that description, I speed-read it and focused more on the specific items I know of that are restorations, the camper carpet & decals.

But with some idle time this morning, I popped the word "original" into my screensearch feature, and it shows there are 20 on that page, 19 in the description and one more word "original" in one of the feedback line titles. Meanwhile, all my paper printouts of Chalet / Casa Grande ads I've collected since 2005 are temporarily in a fireproof safe in my storage locker as I move from one residence to the next, so I don't know for absolute certain if I have a paper printout for the Billings Craigslist ad from Feb 2010 which mentioned the several restoration items, but I do have the simple text copy from that ad (I've copied 'n pasted ad texts into my giant text file every time I see them since 2005 unless they were duplicating prior listings) -- so I plopped the current image of the eBay description onto that series of 2010 ads where the rig was in pretty much the same condition as it is today, where I color highlighted the drops in price each time the guy relisted it. It sure appeared to be really shiny way back then, so the jury is out on whether it was "repainted a few years ago" like the current eBay seller says or if that happened prior to 2010, or if it actually is exceptionally well preserved factory paint. My own former #1747 had that shiny of factory paint because it had been kept out of the sun, only the tops of the fenders were suffering a bit along with parts of the center portion of the hood.

Had to laugh at the current eBay seller saying the brown & tan combo is a rare Chalet color combo. Maybe it might be for standard '77 Blazers, but for '77 Chalets, it's my guess from all I've seen that it is the most common color combo, if it itsn't tied for top spot with the bronze/tan color combo. All-tan is the #3 combo, and so far, I've only seen two examples that are the pastel orange/tan combo, and maybe a half dozen or so that are pastel yellow/tan.
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Seems the "drama" of Chalet sellers/flippers never ends. The above 19-"originals" eBay listing was yanked a day before the auction ended. Weird. The rig popped up at FB Marketplace at $45 grand on Aug 12th, then was labeled as "sold" on Aug 20th - the listing still functions as of today (linky) with that label, it hasn't disappeared completely yet. The guy who has his own FB account for Blazer Chalets / Casa Grandes (linky) informed me a few days after that how the new owner wanted to contact me, but I told him don't do any correspondence through the utterly insecure FB Messaging system (long unrelated bit of proof: FB zapped a image out of one PM exchange I had years back because it "went against community policy. I couldn't even remember what the image was). So I relayed that the new owner needed to contact me through my 'filtering address' at the old chalet forum's contact page. Never heard a word from whoever that new owner was.

Night before last, I was alerted to a different guy's PM on FB about Chalet #0571 in Michigan, and while I was logged in, I did a random search within FB for "blazer chalet." The search turned up an hours-old post about a guy in Ohio who said he just bought Chalet #1683 that day. I replied at his post to ask if the prior seller, whoever it was, had disclosed the rig was a partial 2009-2010 restoration and not an original. Yesterday, I log in to see if the new owner replied and FB tells me there is nothing to see at all, only the standard "This content isn't available right now" blank page. I pop in the new owner's basic account page, and I get the same "nothing to see" page.

The guy's announcement about his purchase displays perfectly fine when I'm not logged in, and the reply I placed there is missing: https://www.facebook.com/seffwright...r7sRNLXayAnqp7ZZkVNYWXcxmH6EeV5HAzgPKtKWGdvkl . I double-checked just now, when I log in via a separate tab and then hit the refresh of the guy's announcement post / replies thread, the whole page reverts right back to "This content isn't available right now.'

I have to assume the new owner blocked me for asking a straight up question. And the guy's last comment in that whole series, the same day he bought it, is that it is for sale. Like I said at my first post here back in 2019, God save me from classic car dealer/flippers.
 
Popcorn time:popcorn:. The new owner I spoke of in my just prior post #13 above has put his #1683 rig up for auction at the Bring a Trailer site: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1977-chevrolet-k5-blazer-cheyenne-chalet-4x4/ . Auction ends on Halloween night, and the odds are that this latest flipper will be in for a scary rude suprise, if he really did buy it out of the FB Marketplace 10 weeks back at $45 grand.
 
"Bid to $24,750" in case anybody missed that yesterday. At the moment, my newest comment I put in the comment section there this morning is at the very top, a bit of a generic "lesson learned" about the "Antiques Roadshow Syndrome" that seems to be plaguing these rigs lately. Maybe one person is lucky enough to spot some rare item somewhere cheap at a garage sale and then flip it later in an auction for big bucks, but that doesn't mean the same lightning profit will strike for other people, especially when they don't do the research on what they're buying.
 
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