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Somebody here is tracking Chalets...not sure if this one is accounted for?
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Thanks, I've seen that model builder's other prior works, and it appears he's quite skilled in many aspects of R/C models. His depictions of Chalets are still a bit more toward the basic interpretation of what they look like rather than being dead-nuts accurate representations. I've seen a couple of his where the camper unit taillights are just rectangles on the back surface, and so far, the front camper cabover vista windows area on his models are always flat across the front when the 1:1 rigs had a much more complex curve to them. Being a static plastic model vehicle builder myself, I know how aiming for deadly accuracy can stop a model build-up dead in its tracks, as opposed to taking various 'git-'er-done' shortcuts. He gets his done and puts them through their paces instead of having them stagnate on his builder's bench.
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Here's one I just ran across on Bookface. I looked at the profile (Richie Phillips listed as seller) and it looks like it's in Iowa.
Edit: Seller replied with #1036
Here's one I just ran across on Bookface. I looked at the profile (Richie Phillips listed as seller) and it looks like it's in Iowa.
Edit: Seller replied with #1036
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Mucho thanks, always best for all to assume I haven't seen any of these or that I haven't caught the latest updates to their status. Over at handloader90's 2016 post about it, I added my update post yesterday a few hours before you spotted it, resulting from other guys alerting to the reappearance of this one and its ... well .... asking price. I hugely appreciate any and all alerts about these, because I miss more than I catch myself.
This one is definitely #1037, one of the key identifiers to it over the many prior years under an assortment of sale flippers is the "Sailors Have More Fun" plate on the front bumper. I sure feel sorry for this current seller if he was suckered into thinking it had better paint than it does from the prior seller dousing it back in mid-October with tons of water ... which won't help its rust problems one bit. The first seller I saw listing it in 2016 said it had 98k miles but wasn't running, and every seller since then including the current one said it doesn't run, so rather than the odo rolling over to 109k miles, I think the current seller typo'd 9k miles when he meant to write 98.
That is a nice chalet
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Fat fingered it...again
Fat fingered it...again
Actually ...... 3. Except only technically. As ever, I greatly appreciate any and all alerts to these even if I happen to know about them already because sometimes - as in this case - something changes about their status within days or even within hours. Another guy had alerted me about these three via email on Jan 2 -- Chalet #0100 that's now seen in this revised "One for sale" listing, and the other one that is the '77 Chalet #1112, and the 3rd one, seen in my screengrab below, Chalet #0206. It's the same webaddress, the guy just altered the description text and photos between Jan 2 and today.
The FB Marketplace lister may only be doing this / these listings on behalf of the owner who might not be internet-savvy. He gave me a rather deflective answer as to whether he was a broker seller or not --- you'll see the same green barn shed roof and Chalet #0206 in the background at the reserve-not-met Aug/Sept wipeout auction at "Bring a Trailer" back for Chalet #0828. The description for it said the lister was offering it on behalf of the owner. That one was the topic of the flip sale update I showed in my post #8 about it in this other thread, where the latest owner wants $115 grand for it. ...... unless that latest ad is some kind of joke.
*Minutes later edit: speaking of jokes, I just found where Chalet #0206 ended up on Jan 4 ..... it's being flipsaled here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1504822169773670?multi_permalinks=3604586193130580
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This popped up figure i share it .
Comment's are good also . 1 is from Australia and said he saw 1 there years ago .
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Comment's are good also . 1 is from Australia and said he saw 1 there years ago .
553K views · 12K reactions | Overlanding rig from the 70s straight from Detroit! Chevy Blazer chalet! Less that 2000 were ever made! #camping #GMC #gmctrucks #chevytrucks #blazer #chevorlet #trucks #generalmotors #mruniqueone #mruniqueone1975 #fyp #f
Overlanding rig from the 70s straight from Detroit! Chevy Blazer chalet! Less that 2000 were ever made! #camping #GMC #gmctrucks #chevytrucks #blazer #chevorlet #trucks #generalmotors #mruniqueone...
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There's actually two brown/tan '77 Chalets in that video, whoever created that FB "Reels" video assembled the clips off two separate unrelated Tik-Tok videos. The clips of the first one - with its non-original orange plaid cab seats - came from a longer video made by the Aug-Nov 2023 owner / flip-saler of Chalet #1683. I mentioned that particular rig over in the other thread about the 'realism' of auction bids at the "Bring a Trailer" site (post #17). A guy working for the person who now owns it contacted me just recently to find out how to properly re-do the camper stripes in the correct factory colors.
I just tried to do a Google search for the full length Tik-Tok video of #1683, but it might have been deleted** by that Aug-Nov 2023 kid flip-saler.
But in doing that Google search, I found the other full length Tik-Tok video, this one, dated 8/8/21. In the FB Reels video, the rig is seen in such short bursts that I didn't easily recognize it. From the longer Tik-tok version, however, I did a Google search of the phone number on the "for sale" sign in the windshield seen at the end of the video, which put it in Kentucky, and from there I connected it with the wannabe speculator flip-saler who was trying unsuccessfully to sell this one - Chalet #1248 - some time after 2019 through to late 2021 (I found the guy's Nov 2021 photos elsewhere with the for sale sign).
Even though I knew of both of these already, I welcome this alert today because I did not know of the Tik-Tok video (a site I otherwise avoid like the plague) for Chalet #1248, but I had found a single still shot taken at that same car show of the rig which I could not pin an exact date to.
** 30 minutes later edit: found that first Tiktok video for #1683.
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showed up in my feed today https://www.facebook.com/groups/992772304094046/permalink/7144492182255330/
Beat ya to it, but not by much - it's best for everyone to assume I don't catch all of these, or when I do, that I haven't caught the latest updates for status on 'em. Thus, please do keep all the alerts coming!
This is Chalet #1230 in Damascus OR that I just happened to spot late last night when I did one of my arbitrary logins to FB to see what could be found in a basic search of "blazer chalet" within that system - added it to my "Google Map of Rigs/Orphaned camper units for sale" a little earlier this morning. The dirt & other stuff cleaned mostly off it, but the way it was back in early Feb 2022 is a good indicator that it needs a thorough inspection about every angle of its condition.
Kind of along the same vein, but still wrong, FairRC is coming out with a Chalet style camper body to sell for the upcoming FCX18 K10 truck that gets released tomorrow.
Yep I said K10. Poor Chinese guys developing the product haven’t figured out that camper wasn’t installed on K10’s way back when. For a 1:18th scale unit it’s not bad but it’s way longer than it should be since the k10 is technically a longbed it’s designed for.
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Seen a variation of that at either Hum3D or some other 3D file-selling site a year or 3 ago, like what's seen here https://3dmodels.org/3d-models/chevy-blazer-chalet-1976/ Whoever drew it just leaped to the conclusion that it was a slide-in camper for a pickup and then stretched it a bit to fit on the K10 they'd likely already drawn. From what I could see, the only way to contact the 3D artist was to be a member of the place he was uploading his files to.
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Really? 123456
When someone wants an offer, that is usually what is put in the price. FB Matketplace requires a price.
Thanks, I did not know that. Haven't ever bought or sold on that
Running late on replying, many thanks for the alert! Another of my eagle-eyed pals alerted me to this #0271 Chalet last weekend, but to repeat what I said a few posts before, it's best for everyone to assume I don't catch all of these, or when I do, that I haven't caught the latest updates. This particular one had its 15 minutes of internet fame eons ago in the old blazerchalet forum (co-created by our CK5 guys dremu and azblazer) in the 4th line of photos of the "Other Chalets" page, 3rd & 4th photos there. The current seller indicates this #0271 never did ultimately change ownership, and that the guy selling it eons ago, Bill Burk, recently died of cancer.@a77blazerchaletLog into Facebook
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I have seen that circumvention of FB Marketplace's price info requirement a few times before on these rigs, but call me ignorant on social media usage -- I see no appeal for selling anything on FB Marketplace, it is as obtuse to search through at a nationwide level as Craigslist is. FB's search area circles used to be 1200 miles in diameter, now they are only 500. And just like Craigslist, scammers take advantage of the system. It appears of of those is doing exactly that with my former #1747 Chalet, listing it in a group selling account for allegedly CA smog non-compliant vehicles .... except this alleged seller of my rig is using all the photos of it out of a 2 year-old FB Marketplace ad in Florida which for some odd reason is still online. I tried contacting the moderator of the CA vehicles group account, but the result came back that the guy doesn't permit incoming messages into his own personal account, which looks fishy. I tried looking up his CA business name, and it has practically no internet presence, which looks even more fishy.
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