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

Lake Havasu hunh, I have to keep an eye out for it. Haven't seen it yet. Plenty of garages here for that beast.
There was 1 here in the late 80s.
I did the front bearings on it. Belonged to property management guy, my landlord,
Went by Johnny U.
Since I have been back have been on the lookout for that one.
 
muddybuddy said:
... what is the second temp gauge in the cluster? Trans or oil temp? Assume that isnt factory?
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Good eye, I don't think I've ever seen that on any other rig, and hadn't noticed it before on this one. It's not a specific Chalet / GMC Casa Grande option that I'm aware of. My former #1747 had the coolant gauge to the right and just a basic parking brake light indicator face in the lower left where this one has a secondary temperature gauge. I'd have to defer to other pure GM experts who might know if that was some kind of option in the Cheyenne-level Blazers or Jimmys.
 
dyeager535 said:
"Article" on #414. ...Guy in the comments says he worked for Chinook ...
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Thanks for that alert! Saw the article and sent an inquiry to the article author to ask if he can share what he supposedly knows about "it’s not seldom that you see these babies changing hands for more than $50,000" since what I've seen is pretty much the opposite, where they seldom sell for above $35 grand. Not holding my breath for an answer from the writer since he did not answer my inquiry in February about a different rig he mentioned in his article on Chalet #0579 back then that supposedly sold for $60,000.

Did not see that this current article had a comments section, and have never contacted the guy you noted, so later I will sign in and see if I can get him to contact me. I was alerted to Gary Lockhart being interviewed within the May/June VintageTruck article on the still-unsold Chalet #1221 (never found the magazine, haven't read it), but after I got the article writer there to forward Mr Lockhart's phone number to me, it turns out Lockhart was mostly a marketing guy who has very little knowledge on production details. The most he could provide is that GM/Chinook were initially planning on a production run of 6000 units.
 
Just to save you the hassle, here is is comment:

"Bruce Thompson
2 days ago
I worked on this program at Chinook. My recollection is that approximately 150 GMC Casa Grande's were built."

I tried to contact him but my post didn't work, I assume as I tried to link to here. I tried again, through disqus I can't find any way to contact him.
 
dyeager535 said:
... I tried to contact him but my post didn't work, I assume as I tried to link to here. I tried again, through disqus I can't find any way to contact him.
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Many thanks!! It looks like they permitted your comment there hours ago, and the guy has replied to you there.

The Disqus comment system is utterly obtuse to deal with, I tried for over a half hour last night to get it to accept my verification email in my 13 year-old barely-used account and then I was finally able to place a comment there ...… only to be met with the warning that my comment with its suggestion for the guy to contact me via the address here http://blazerchalet.com/contact.html was under "moderator approval." And it is still not approved there as of the time of this post. Perhaps that website automatically deletes web links, so if you can, suggest to the guy to go to "blazerchalet DOT com's Contact page to see the address to send info to" or something like that.
 
Crap, they closed comments already! Nothing I can do now. I can follow his profile and see if he posts elsewhere I suppose. No other ideas unfortunately.
 
dyeager535 said:
Crap, they closed comments already! Nothing I can do now. I can follow his profile and see if he posts elsewhere I suppose. No other ideas unfortunately.
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Appreciate the efforts! As for the shut-down, that doesn't help the appearance that the AutoEvolution website has something funny going on when it comes to overhyping the sales of these rigs ....

Chalet comms closed.jpg
 
Yes, not sure what reason they would have to close comments while responses were just hours old. Maybe that cuts down on what they have to moderate, but that seems a stretch.
 
Probably trying to stop you 2 from reaching each other, off site sales and such.
 
That one on BaT sold for like $26k. Commenters were saying it was a steal, expecting it to go to 100k like the one that sold for 120k last year on there
 
Wes Harden said:
Probably trying to stop you 2 from reaching each other, off site sales and such.
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Sent an email appeal straight to the website, asking first why the comments were locked when no violations were happening, and also pointed out that my own comment was stuck in a "moderator approval" purgatory. Well, they've since set my comment free to appear online (along with a duplicate I don't remember trying to post), but the comments are still locked. Hope the former Chinook person saw the upvotes I put on his comments.
muddybuddy said:
That one on BaT sold for like $26k. Commenters were saying it was a steal, expecting it to go to 100k like the one that sold for 120k last year on there
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Yep, feel sorry for that bidder. No contacts yet at the blazerchalet website from any new owner. That's how I learned about that #0414 Chalet's engine knock faults, from one prospective buyer who told me via his email inquiry that the prior 2016-era eBay seller was trying to include a spare crate engine, and from another eBay auction winner who alerted me that he took delivery of it ..... without being told there was an engine knock problem, which I told him about. Just an hour after his alert to me, he emailed back and said he was returning it. My guess is he went out and started the rig up. The third eBay winner must be the guy who just got it auctioned at BaT.
 
a77blazerchalet said:
Appreciate the efforts! As for the shut-down, that doesn't help the appearance that the AutoEvolution website has something funny going on when it comes to overhyping the sales of these rigs ....

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Hey i heard your the man to talk to about chalets? I just happened to come across a 1976 package C.
 
89on16wides said:
... I just happened to come across a 1976 package C.
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Excellent! It may either be one I have background info on, or it might be one to add to my mega-spreadsheet. I find and/or am alerted to an average of 40 'new' ones per year. Please send an initial email to my filtering address at http://blazerchalet.com/contact.html and then I'll answer via my regular one after that. I can use any photos you have, particularly of the camper serial number plate and the truck's VIN that's on the driver's side door jamb tag, on on (it it's still there) the blue & white RPO tag in the glove compartment.

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a77blazerchalet said:
Excellent! It may either be one I have background info on, or it might be one to add to my mega-spreadsheet. I find and/or am alerted to an average of 40 'new' ones per year. Please send an initial email to my filtering address at http://blazerchalet.com/contact.html and then I'll answer via my regular one after that. I can use any photos you have, particularly of the camper serial number plate and the truck's VIN that's on the driver's side door jamb tag, on on (it it's still there) the blue & white RPO tag in the glove compartment.

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Just sent ya an email
 
Net new add to the master list?!

Curious (hopefully nowhere near this point yet) but at what point do you presume the remaining that you have not accounted for are dead? I guess after a year or so of no net new adds?
 
muddybuddy said:
... at what point do you presume the remaining that you have not accounted for are dead? ...
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The one just above turns out to be one I knew of since sometime last year via FB Marketplace, a orphaned camper unit project that got its serial number plate stripped off years back. "89on16wides" is going to see if there is any greasepencil markings on the inside front area where Chinook sometimes marked the serial numbers. Meanwhile, at the rate I'm going, a basic average of 40 'new' ones to add to my mega-spreadsheet each year, it'll be a while before I can declare I have found as many as can be found. It's an uphill struggle to nail down where I have multi-entries for just one single rig or camper unit, where they change in appearance over the years, or where I have an old ad listing but no photo to go with it. Yep, when the 'incoming' start tapering off, that'll be an indicator that we are running out of 'em. But at the moment, I have yet to sign into Instagram or the other social media photo places, so that's one unexplored place where I get alerts about 'em. It's a hobby, keeps me off the streets and out of trouble …
 
muddybuddy said:
how many do you believe to be non duplicates on your spreadsheet and how many in total were made over the years?
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Of the 600+ perhaps all but a dozen or so might be non-dublicates. Really hard to tell. In cases where I gleaned a VIN out of an old '79-'81 newspaper classifieds scan, it is possible I have an unID'd photo of the rig or camper unit, and then have a separate non-photo ad listing, thus 3 potential entries for one rig. Or in another case, I might have one photo of a rig and the thing has subsequently been either repainted or modded in a way that I don't connect the two together. It's a never-ending hunt for clues to minimize overlaps. All there is that's official from GM is a total of 1,555 Chalets, but they lost their GMC figure. The paragraph #2 in this 1979 Treasure Search magazine article about theirs (which I have yet to identify or find again) says 1,780 were made. Who knows where the writer got that figure, my guess is he knew some ex-Chinook administrator living in CA at the time. We'll likely never know since the writer of that article who was also the editor of the magazine, is deceased.
eodcoduto said:
Found one around me in Alabama.

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Thanks for the alert! That's the #0165 rig which is also in this alternate FB Marketplace ad: https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/1124782621788565/ (The seller contacted me; I politely let him know that his rig is a '76 and that his price is a bit on the optimistic side).
 
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