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Somebody here is tracking Chalets...not sure if this one is accounted for?

sweetk30 said:
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Thanks for the alert, since I can't remember things well enough, it reminded me that I needed to quick put in a months-overdue update to my thread on this one, Casa Grande #1299 that was set to auction at the Mecum Dallas one, which is where the video you have was shot. I was worried that the auction winner was going to put giant spiny wheels on it like the other ones he mods, but he ended up trying to flipsale it not much more than a month later, and his FB Marketplace listing still doesn't show it as sold. Same rig that our CK5 man BobB alerted us to in mid-June in his post #526 above - that seller was the classic car dealer who took it to the Mecum Dallas auction.
 
muddybuddy said:
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Many thanks, glad you caught this one, and glad the listing is still functioning 2 days later for me to get a complete screengrab + plus ad text to go into my file. It's yet another flipsale of this particular rig. The prior seller in Clyde SC was quite flighty, I managed to get a screengrab of his first flipsale effort 2 days after it was confirmed sold in January 2023 by the prior flipsaler (who herself was trying for a couple years to flip this one and 3 others). I had planned to put this one in at my "for sale map list" but the link had disappeared, so I PM'd the Clyde guy through Facebook and asked if he'd sold it that quick - he said he decided to keep it. Then he put out back out in a FB Marketplace listing a month later in 2023 and in at least 5 more efforts later. I snagged 3 listings for my records but missed 2 others that guys alerted me to because the seller took them offline just a day or two later. Last asking price he had for it was $11 grand less than what this current seller is asking.

Contrary to what this seller says in the listing, the stripes are not original nor are the cloth reupholstered seats, and 400 engines in these Chalets were just as common as the 350s, plus I only know of the one Chalet #0429 that auctioned for 6 figures, the next highest auction price I'm aware of was half as much.
 
sweetk30 said:
@a77blazerchalet here a pair .... I got screen shots of all if its gone before you get to it . ..... inside is RUFF . . Overall looks a bit skuzzy .
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Many thanks for the screengrab efforts!! It turns out the listing is still up as of this post time, but it's happened more than once where I didn't get a chance to see the alerts I've gotten soon enough to see them minus screengrabs, and the ads disappeared offline just that quick in only a day or in just hours the same day when I got to read the alert in the evening. So I always welcome the screengrab pics because odds are usually against me on seeing the listings in time.

The Chalet with the murals on the side is #1000 built in Oct '76, an eagle-eyed GMC Casa Grande owner in Denver photographed it and alerted me back in 2013, then I was alerted to it again in 2021 where the longtime owner was offering in (if I remember right) some Facebook comment section somewhere for $1000 or so, then a month or 3 later another person was flipsaling it for $6 grand, then another guy was trying to flip it a year later for what looked like a desperation sale at a break-even price, where he said something to the effect that his home owners' association was demanding that he get rid of his vehicle collection, which included two other Chalets and one orphaned camper unit. First pic below when it still had a functioning roof on top. Meanwhile, I was first alerted to the orphaned #1664 in this listing back in 2014 where a guy only said the whole rig was located in a Massachusetts junkyard. The best I could do at the time was spot it in a satellite view, but 2 years later the guy revisited it in person and took photos while getting the camper serial number. Different guy bought it (I think from seeing my 'for sale' of these) and removed the camper unit in 2021, gutted the inside, and then had it in a Craigslist ad for $3100 bragging up the value of these, while the unit itself looked like it was $3 grand overpriced.

Tends to be long backstories to these …

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sweetk30 said:
o.k. buddy @a77blazerchalet as you got the screen shots your self i will dump mine off the phone .

glad to be of help and the mural on the side i know there had to be a story .
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Very good - and thanks again, where it is always best to assume first that I've managed to miss seeing a listing. Home improvement work (because my poor man's tiny home needs lots of improvement!) takes me away from da interwebs for hours or days at a time, plus I get bogged down in other speculative work stuff (it's political). I'm digging through my emails and the pages at Miles Blackard's FB account page for these, because I'd swear I saw something somewhere from the longtime Colorado owner (before the subsequent flipsalers got to it) explaining the need to sell it and those murals on it.
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Ive said it before, but i love and appreciate how detailed you track these.
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Thanks! Guy to blame for the slow growth of 2005-to-present details I have was the eBay seller of Chalet #0310 who claimed in 2006 that there were "only 40 left in the world." Ever since I started looking for these in 2005 (purely to get one for myself initially), I find and/or am alerted to an average of 40 per year in eBay/Craigsllist/other sales ads + sightings/photographs at various websites. So by the time I saw the listing for Chalet #0310, I was already up to the first 40 from ads, but on top of that, the nearly year old Yahoo forum for owners/enthusiasts of these had an additional 20 guys who joined as owners of at least on and a few guys had two. Keeping track of them all just from memory was becoming impossible, thus the solution was a spreadsheet list with as many individual identifying details I could squeeze in to ID each one. The list is up to 650-ish right now, but while 40 per year for 20 years now would be 800 rigs total, I've also had many overlaps where two or more entries for different ads / sightings / photos were actually one-and-the-same rig or orphaned camper unit, which eventually I figured out to consolidate into just one entry.
 
Thanks for the heads-up on that one, nice to see the owner chimed in on it -- as usual, there's a backstory. This one is actually the orphaned GMC Jimmy Casa Grande unit #0855 which I first saw as a complete but thoroughly rusty full rig in a 2009 Crosslake MN Craigslist ad for $1000. The seller relisted it a few times in 2014 for a grand, then it popped up in a 2016 Minneapolis Craigslist ad with an asking price of $12 grand along with the claim that it was a rust-free Arizona truck. I doubt that very much, unless it was an AZ truck that rusted in MN and then the Minneapolis had put a ton of work into it replacing all the panels. More likely he found a non-original Jimmy, swapped the camper unit onto it, and tried to pass it off as all original. But originality didn't matter to the Chicago area guy who bought it, who then modded the camper a bunch with solar panels and modern electronics inside. Since the Jimmy was really good, he ended up keeping that and selling the camper unit to the current owner, who put it on the newer Blazer you see in the above FB post, and repainted it all retro-80s style.
 
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Many thanks for the alert! Two entertaining things happening there in that FB post. First, the "Classic Resurrections" FB account is reposting an identical post from mid Feb about this dusty Chalet on a trailer, my comment in the prior post explained how it is Chalet #1017 but the photos were from a Nov 2023 eBay listing.

Next thing is the guy in the comment section there saying he sold his own Chalet for $20 grand 4 years ago. For just a couple of seconds, I thought it was a new one to add to my spreadsheet, but then I recognized it as my former #1747 rig, and I recognized the "Tim" name. Around midsummer 2020 during one of my random searches within Facebook for these rigs, I ran across his months-earlier post about acquiring it, so I PM'd him via FB to say I used to have it and would be glad to share details of what I fixed on it, then I said I hoped he didn't pay too much for it. At the time in 2020, more and more flipsalers were popping up doubling or tripling asking prices for rigs that they'd bought months or weeks before from longtime owners or estate sale liquidations. The prior asking price I saw for mine in 2017 was $9500. ……. But just a short time later after I PM'd the guy, I found his FB Marketplace ad for #1747, at $30 grand, and also with 100k knocked off the actual mileage. Let's keep it polite and say he was neither receptive to my next PM offering to share restoration details he could put into his Marketplace ad or my polite suggestion to write in the accurate milage figure. Entertaining confession about his sale amount in the above FB comment, it helps to explain the Jan 15 2021 Modesto CA flipsaler asking $24 grand, a quick $4 grand profit. The CA seller backed off to $18 grand two months later, then in Dec 2021 #1747 reappeared again in a Florida FB Marketplace ad for $26 grand, and with 100k knocked off the mileage. Last I saw of it was in a July Skokie Illinois dealership at $30 grand, and then the dealer ultimately sold it in a Sept 2022 eBay auction for $25 grand.
 
muddybuddy said:
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Many thanks for keeping an eye out, another of my many 'eyes' out there alerted me to this listing earlier this afternoon, and I popped my comment in there about its non-factory color repaint. I'll look tomorrow there to see what the answer might be. I've known of this Casa Grande #1457 all the way back to when one of its former owners was a member of our (now defunct) Yahoo Autos Group forum for Chalet / Casa Grande owners. It was in the original pastel tan / white factory color, he sold it after it had some light driver's side door damage. It was repainted by a subsequent owner who said he opted for the metalflake gold because the factory pastel tan was "so ugly." I saved a screenshot of the owner saying that. He had a point, I'll admit, but that repaint and other restoration shortcomings ('76 model year trim replacement on the Jimmy) really hurt the collector value. Three flipsaler owners afterward all said it was repainted to "match the '77 factory prototype", and last I saw of it in July 2022, it had sold at the Mecum Florida auction for $53,900. Good chance that the winning bidder was never told that it had a non-factory color repaint.

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EddieExpedition said:
..in Michigan. Not sure if it’s been posted here yet.
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Yep, it has, but a year plus a week ago, noted in my post #522 - a bit funny sorta because I'd forgotten that the seller wanted to get a quick sale out of it.

Always appreciate these alerts even if I do know of 'em since they might contain updated info / new photo uploads, and it's best to assume I haven't seen 'em since I am swamped with other obligations that shoves my hobby time aside.
 
EddieExpedition said:
How about this one?
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Glad you're keeping an eye out at FB Marketplace, I miss these sometimes when sellers leave out the "Chalet" name in the titles or descriptions, or if FB gets obtuse and just doesn't show these within my internal searches I do at the site. This one, however, is the notorious #0828 where the current Port St Lucie seller apparently got hooked into an impulse purchase of this somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 grand back in late 2023, thinking he could immediately flip sale it for $115 grand. No joke. He's been price-dropping it ever since, so it's good to see the ad still functions. See my original thread on this one over in the Ebay listings section starting in Oct 2023: https://ck5.com/forums/threads/0828...-now-79-999-in-port-st-lucie-feb-14th.348832/
 
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