Go back a couple of pages. One went for $125,000 back in March on bring a trailer. It is the sole reason people are reaching to the 6 figure target for price now. One already got it so now thiers should too is the mentally.
Best I can provide on this mega-lift #0251 is that the first time I saw it was just after the lift had been done, and one of the guys at the 67-72Chev forum posted about it in 2008 here: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=297501 . Our CK5 Doug W (co-creator of the very old blazerchalet.com website that I'm the current caretaker of, to keep it online) noted in post #8 there that the guy who modded it with the lift was a member of our now-gone Yahoo Chalet forum, and I chimed in at post #10 with the link to the shop owner's website. It's a non-functioning link now, and the Internet Archive site that captures websites wasn't able to preserve the guy's before & after shots of his various modded vehicles, but from the solitary photo I saved, Chalet #0251 seemed to be in very good condition, either as restored or maybe original. We'd need more info from that Virginia shop guy on where he got it and about what condition it was in back then.
Technically, yes, since the first asking price for Chalet #0429 was $59,900 was the highest I'd ever seen up to that point. That was by the same guys at Garage Kept Motors who succeeded at getting it auctioned at BaT for $125 grand. Was Chalet #0429 actually worth $125 grand? Not by a long shot, in my opinion. As I pointed out over in this CK5 thread, it's still unresolved that it was a single-owner rig, and the other problem is that all the other bidders dropped out after the $47,500 point, leaving it to just two bidders having more money than God (when you look at their other vehicle purchase/bidding history at BaT) to fight over it. The thing that made it a potentially high dollar collector vehicle is that it is supposedly an unrestored, very well kept "time-capsule" with low miles. Another pal of mine, who saw both sides of its last title and asked the sellers to show a reverse side photo of it in that BaT auction, disputes the mileage figure. Meanwhile, this other $119 grand Chalet #1221 is higher mileage, and has been incorrectly restored paint-wise with its stripes, along with a few other defects. I think it has '76 model year cab seats, among other problems, and I'm not liking the alternating colors on the frame.
Found the current FB Marketplace link for it that has more pics. Those sure look like the factory original vinyl cab seats and dinette seats. I let the fellow know he had a typo in the ad on that. Odds are very much against it (nearly impossible, actually) but if somebody replicated the seats back sometime before 2008 with leather in a nearly identical color, then the rig is not factory original. If it is factory original (minus the bumper / hood / lift / wheels & tires), then those are vinyl seats in exceptionally good condition, something to brag about.
Well, the post I had was for the selling dealer's likely unattainable asking price (" '77 Blazer Chalet #1221 ... for $119 Large in Grand Rapids MI") prior to today's auction start. If it was offered to the two or three top losing bidders of the last BaT auction for Chalet #0429 prior to today, and none bit, that might be an indicator that it won't come close to #0429's final $125 grand at the end of the bidding.
Chalet #1212, built in 9/76. Recognized it from the photo basically along with the Horseheads Pick-a-Part reference. From notes I have in my mega-spreadsheet, it was "flhoward46" here at CK5 who alerted me to it via this thread, http://coloradok5.com/forums/showpost.php?s=c936e7b99fd0f2867a4a1f1bf73c7872&p=2732039 , which I can't get to work, that's either from 9/14/14 or 5/27/10. There were 9 pics in that thread including one of the serial number plate, here's one:
I'm always indebted to anybody who alerts me to such listings! I don't look at FB much more than every few weeks or so, but late last night I was back on to see if I had gotten a PM response from a different car guy I contacted, and I usually do an image search to see if any new posted photos appear. This one doesn't match any rigs I have notes on, so I PM'd the guy, and he said he'll relay photos of the camper's serial number plate to me when the next opportunity arises.
Good luck for the guy on that. And if the guy can get over that hurdle, good luck to him trying to sell it for "trendy" big dollars. The last buyer of Chalet #1037, a rig in very similar condition, attempted that adventure around a dozen times on ebay/Craigslist from 2017 to 2019. First price he had was $4999 and the last one was $1200, and then more recently somebody either at CK5 or on Instagram spotted it this year (if I remember right) sitting neglected in a Missouri RV storage lot, where the spotter said it had been parked for many years.
I am contemplating at buying one.... you think one can be had for $2k? like in those pics?
Absolutely. The key to success is to get to one that somebody wants cleared off their land before the dealer / flippers get to it. Keep an eye on my GoogleMap of the ones for sale that I find or am alerted to: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...4&ll=38.69572462453107,-97.37870694999998&z=4 I try to keep it reasonably updated, but other obligations keep me away from my hobbies more than I wish.
Yep, the guy who was working on getting the title sent me pics of the SN plate, this is Chalet #1005, built in 10/76, and it's another one that I wasn't aware of before.someone just posted one they brought home.. i replied with link here and asked if were a membet to come here..if not pm me to give me info... then replied to 3 more people who posted pics of theirs!!!!www.facebook.com
Thanks for that update. All I heard on it before was that it was in a Montana junkyard. Somebody on Instagram took two pics of it, looks to be quite an uphill struggle: https://www.instagram.com/p/B7CxbnigdEL/ Second lowest serial number I know of after #0010 that a guy in France got out of the U.S. to go with the 7 or 8 other Chalets he imported.
