I've tried it on several occasions, it still misses particular ad listings I'd already found that Google site-specific searches of Craigslist misses. Thanks for the alert, nevertheless. If Craigslist itself wasn't so weird about thwarting nationwide searches in the first place, we'd all be so much better off.
One of my pals, former owner of Chalet #0589, who created his own own Facebook page for these rigs (linky) snagged the person who took it away, and found out it is the orphaned Chalet camper unit #0989 that's going to a good home where the person plans to outfit it with modern interior stuff.
Chalet #1513 built in 1/77. However, it might not actually be sold for real, because something didn't go right with the end of the auction there. I had the page bookmarked with a note that the auction was to end at 4:31, so I set my alarm to go off earlier which allows me to have enough time to get screen grabs of the full auction page for my paper printout. Right when started to do that, it was showing a countdown of 6 minutes to go and barely seconds later as I was about to get the first screen grab of material farther down the page (I always grab the top with the counter last right before the auction runs out of time), it changed screens to show "sold" for $16,000. I'll bet the guy yanked the listing (they can do that when it's supposedly bought offline during an auction) because he didn't put a reserve price on it, and it was going to sell for way under the amount he wanted. He bought the rig in a Facebook Marketplace ad where the asking price was $15,000. Wouldn't surprise me in the least if it gets relisted sometime soon with excuses about not actually being sold, buyer had no cash, etc..
Thanks for the alert! I was aware of this Chalet #1751, but not this latest relisting. GRRR!! When I updated my Google map of the ones I know of for sale yesterday, I deleted the pin I had for this one because its June Craigslist link had expired, and that version had the same glitch in it that this one does where it won't display the seller's phone number. I'll update the map with this latest link after I log out here. Btw, the seller has hiked the price $2500 from the June listing, without apparently doing $2500 worth of upgrades in the interim time.
He probably changed them because the glovebox says 400ci
Good eye! I must confess that in all the years I've seen it listed for sale, ever since 2007, I never noticed the big tell-tale of that camper lowest option level, which is the lack of outside grille for a furnace and no louvers for a fridge. The Reno 2010 Craigslist printout I have for it says that particular seller is the one who put in his own version of a top bunk, but it was the owner previous to him who put in interior cabinets to replace what wasn't in there, and that the prior owner also put in a rebuilt 350 engine. In this latest listing, it looks like the passenger side cabinets are missing again.
I'm calling "Fake ad" on this one for multiple reasons. While the truck resembles the maroon-painted Casa Grande #0721 with its big black bumpers that's (last I heard in 2019) in the Denver area, I don't think it's the same Jimmy since that one didn't have a white-painted roof. Quite unlikely that it would have been recently painted that way while leaving the rest of the truck in a patina rust color. Casa Grande #0721 is also a '76 model year. Who knows what the seller means with his "by the matching VIN#...#29 of 200" line.***** I've never seen Haggerty Insurance offer any opinions on these rigs's values, it would be news to me if they did. Modded junker Jimmys missing their factory original campers are worth whatever lousy condition Blazers & Jimmys sell for in the real world.
Thanks for catching that one! I saw it about two weeks ago when the seller posted about it at the Facebook page for Chalets and Casa Grandes that the former owner of Chalet #0589 created. This orphaned camper unit is #1259, built in 11/76, and is actually a '77 model year camper unit. Either the seller has an extra zero typo in his price, or this one is yet another that falls into what I'd call the "Antiques Roadshow" phenomenon, where folks pay $5 for a hopelessly busted up Tiffany lamp and expect to flip it for $50,000 just because they saw something similar sell for that in one of the TV episodes, when the reality of the situation is that it would take $3 grand worth of lampmaker craftmanship to fix it to the same level that identical $1200 lamps commonly sell for.
Are you looking at a different FB ad? I adjusted the contrast of the pics for the #1259 camper unit, it has gravel & dirt on the floor, cobweb fuzz and quite a bit of rust on the stainless steel cooktop, and either mold or dirt on the rear and has a missing taillight lens. For comparison's sake, while the listing I have on my Google map for the orphaned #1726 camper unit in Sisseton SD is now over 3 years old, the other photos I saved from its Craigslist ad it show a variety of other trash & crud in the interior. The seller was asking $600 for #1726, and if he is still stuck with it and can be talked down to $500 or $450 or even less just to finally get rid of it, would you still pay $3000 for #1259?
