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

H20 Toie said:
here is another one https://reno.craigslist.org/cto/d/1976-k5-blaszer-chalet/6479986113.html
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Which happens to be offered by a seller who's a bit into drama. At the bottom, the ad currently says it was updated a day ago and was placed 15 days back. Well, I happened to copy down the text of it on the 31st of January, when it said (and I quote directly, including the misspelled truck name) "1976 K5 Blaszer Chalet Cheyenne - $14500 ... I have two standing offers already on the truck and it will be sold in two weeks. This post is my last attempt for my asking price. First $14,500 takes it. This posting will only be up for the next two weeks."

Uh, huh. Right. This seller first starting listing this one back in mid September last year with a beginning price of $20 grand. It's Chalet #0058, previously seen at an Abilene TX classic car dealership for over $16 grand, but with not an iota of improvement over its prior appearance at the 2009 Barrett-Jackson auction were its no-reserve winning bid was $9350. It's less shiny now, and now sports a bowed-up hood, likely from a slowspeed front end collision, plus one subtle new difference that was not seen in the guy's first September photos -- there's two little bolt heads in the upper center sides of the camper roof. Can't imagine what those are supposed to accomplish, but they don't belong there, and thus it isn't a good sign.

So if the seller seems a bit testy, it might be because if he paid more than $9 grand for it in Texas, he paid way too much for it. When I saw it at the Barrett-Jackson auction, it was missing its front driveshaft for who knows what reason, the frame and axles were recently dust-coated with semi-gloss black, and there was quite a bit of patina rust on the metal surfaces inside the camper.
 
a77blazerchalet said:
Which happens to be offered by a seller who's a bit into drama. At the bottom, the ad currently says it was updated a day ago and was placed 15 days back. Well, I happened to copy down the text of it on the 31st of January, when it said (and I quote directly, including the misspelled truck name) "1976 K5 Blaszer Chalet Cheyenne - $14500 ... I have two standing offers already on the truck and it will be sold in two weeks. This post is my last attempt for my asking price. First $14,500 takes it. This posting will only be up for the next two weeks."

Uh, huh. Right. This seller first starting listing this one back in mid September last year with a beginning price of $20 grand. It's Chalet #0058, previously seen at an Abilene TX classic car dealership for over $16 grand, but with not an iota of improvement over its prior appearance at the 2009 Barrett-Jackson auction were its no-reserve winning bid was $9350. It's less shiny now, and now sports a bowed-up hood, likely from a slowspeed front end collision, plus one subtle new difference that was not seen in the guy's first September photos -- there's two little bolt heads in the upper center sides of the camper roof. Can't imagine what those are supposed to accomplish, but they don't belong there, and thus it isn't a good sign.

So if the seller seems a bit testy, it might be because if he paid more than $9 grand for it in Texas, he paid way too much for it. When I saw it at the Barrett-Jackson auction, it was missing its front driveshaft for who knows what reason, the frame and axles were recently dust-coated with semi-gloss black, and there was quite a bit of patina rust on the metal surfaces inside the camper.
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By the way Russel, just an update on the 1060 chalet I sold, the guy was living in it and he was a big guy and didn't care much about authenticity so he started cleaning up the interior by removing the bad fridge and using the space for storage and took out the cots and threw them away before he told me.
I would have kept them for someone that could use them.
Then to clean up the underhood area he removed the air conditioning system.
Otherwise he cleaned it up, retouched the fainted paint and fixed the rear main seal leak then sold it for the same $2500 that he gave me.
I am still waiting for him to call me back to get some info on the new buyer, but he should be in Arizona because that's where my friend is.
 
Desert_K5 said:
https://lasvegas.craigslist.org/cto/d/1977-blazer-chalet-1544-rare/6513888300.html This one popped up a couple days ago.
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Always, knowledge is power when buying these rigs. When I called about my former #1747, the girlfriend of the seller blabbed that she borrowed her boyfriend the money to buy it, and I knew approximately how much it sold for weeks earlier, more than $3k less than he was asking for it. But I guessed $500 too high, and when I waved that money in cash at the seller (who was facing the prospect of being beaten by his girlfriend if she didn't get her money back right quick), he leaped at my offer. A profit is a profit, and I was able to tell the guy what the going rate for barn finds was at the time.

In this case, we have Chalet #1544, which I first saw in Loomis CA Craigslist ads in March 2016 for the ridiculous price of $20k, but it got relisted multiple times until its last one in July 2016 for $6500. Then this guy listed it on Facebook in January 2017, and the designation of it now says "Sold, $4500." Do new shocks & new exhaust punch the value up $2500? Jury is out on that idea .....
 
Desert_K5 said:
https://bozeman.craigslist.org/cto/d/1976-gmc-casa-grande/6580633252.html 76 for a grand
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I appreciate the heads-up on this one. Obtuse organization that Craigslist is, they still apparently thwart nationwide searches of their site, so this one doesn't turn up in my bookmarked Google site-specific search for Casa Grandes. It was previously listed last fall in Missoula, MT for $1200, but under a different phone number and parked out in a woodsy pine needle field. The seller didn't respond with a serial # or build date. It's a '77, though, has Jimmy emblems on the sides, but a Chevy one for the steering wheel center cap.

cwn anwyn said:
Not sure about any info on this orphan or if you were tracking it already. .... https://wichita.craigslist.org/cto/d/76-chevy-blazer-k5/6581595944.html
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This one at least showed up in my Google email search alert thing for Chalets. It's Chalet #0115, which is one that Emporia Auto Recycling in Emporia, KS had gotten in order to rob the roof off it and other parts in order to restore Chalet #1595, which must have gotten its roof blown off sometime after I saw it in a 2015 Phoenix ebay auction. The Emporia guy never did say where #1595 ended up.

azblazer said:
I forgot i found one the other day on my way to ND for work.
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With that grille bar, it doesn't look like any one I have on my mega-spreadsheet. Any chance of getting in over there for a closer look and more photos? Remember to snag the VIN also if the opportunity arises.
 
a77blazerchalet said:
Many many thanks for spotting that one. Casa Grande #0687, another one to add to my mega-spreadsheet list. Nice of the seller to include the SN plate among his photos. Tragic about the necessity to hold the roof on; appears to have the wrong year grille on it, among other problems. Meanwhile, I just posted a thread about Chalet #1595 on Craigslist here.
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Some days I think I was so stupid selling mine so cheap.
I sold it for $2500.
Running perfect zero rust.
Oh well...
 
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