Not holding my breath on this. People will likely hold onto their junk and wait out the ride hoping for everything to go back up again. By the time that happens, and if it does, and when it does, they may be dead from old age. The truck will likely be rotted out by then.
People that are hit hard by this won't be holding on to their crap.
I agree that there will be some.
I agree here for the most part as this pertains mostly to those without jobs. I still browse several different sites and have yet to see any changes on prices. Call it what you want but I'm always on the lookout for that screaming deal. Just like the rest of us. I'd like to see the K30 costs go down. Been a little ridiculous for the past several years.
There will be a lag. It is way too soon in the pandemic.
100% agree.
Applies to Blazer Chalets as well. Plus, another good question to ask is if the actual big dollar sales are legit. Chalet #1741 went from dealer/flipper to dealer/flipper a couple of years ago barely worth its initial $7k legit daily driver price, with ever-increasing asking prices with each new seller for zero improvements to it apart from new tires and a wax job. Last I heard, it sold to some hapless dolt for $17k or more, still not even close to factory showroom new collector value. Chalet #1683 sat unsold for years at a dealer/flipper's lot for $16k because it flat out was not worth that much to savvy buyers. And not for lack of the guy trying to sell it either. Plop it into a Mecum auction, and it sells in an instant for over $19k, and subsequently gets hyped in a slick internet article by the next dealer/flipper, where a subsequent followup article claims it sold for just under $30k. All of that with zero restoration improvement beyond a super wax job since the first time it appeared for $8k in the first flipper's Craigslist ad in 2010. I could go on and on with these things. Tell-tale sign of something not right is that not a single one of the mega-dollar buyers of Chalets has made the effort to contact me through the BlazerChalet website to learn more about their rig. Not. One. Meanwhile, I see more and more of the ignorant barn find sellers who've done no more than 10 minutes' worth of Google searching asking outrageous prices for rigs with so much rust in them that the trucks are not likely even salvageable."Alexa, how much is a rusty 1982 k5 blazer worth?"
"A 1982 blazer sold on barett jackson for $32,000"
"Cool, that's how much I'll ask for in the ad"
I am working on that.
), why wouldn't I buy the one that carries some warm feelings with it? Left-handed shifting was fun, and I never get to do that anymore.
my dad drove a wagon of this model and she was a tank . the car was loaded up and beefed up the best possible with parts at the time . he was a field service repair man and had about anything he needed in that wagon . she was painted white and she just cruised all over upstate new york and upper pa .Nostalgia is funny stuff. A 1985 4-door Cavalier has basically zero fan club. It never was a cool car. Google doesn't even have many good pictures of one. And yet, since I drove one early in my driving career, I would smile if I ever passed one on the road. Not because it's a particularly noteworthy car, just because I happen to have history with it. If I was somehow forced to buy some low-end 1980s econobox (
The nostalgia adds a bit of value to an otherwise worthless car.
I hope it happens in the next 10 years while I’m still able enough to help form the new country and keep the demons at bay.
