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Yep, ended with "reserve not met" at $12,400, perhaps $5 grand more than it is worth. But that's not the least of it, this is the second ebay listing of Chalet #0414, it's first one was here back in August. The guy who won the first auction joined our Chalet forum to tell us the news, and upon discovering its faults, got his money back. It was sold a second time a week or three later, with the new owner joining our forum who then returned it after learning of its engine issues and other problems (the interior is not "mint" in the least). Without getting into further details, the ebay seller faces problems with this one and how it is represented, from what I hear out of both 'temporary' former owners.

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This is such valuable information and why it pays to be part of forums and groups. I have been very interested in this Chalet since the first listing. I felt uneasy about it from the beginning and it looked like something that could show better than actual. I'm glad I saw this and I think I will pass if two owners have been disappointed in the truck. For the right price it would be fun vehicle. I was always thinking 10k was my max, but it sounds like that may have even been too much.

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Interesting. I thought it showed well in the pics and wouldn't have been too suspicious about it. Are those seats swapped in by a previous owner? It appears they were made to look correct but I don't think I've seen seats like that in a Chalet before.

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As the saying goes, "knowledge is power, networking is priceless." The Chalet #0414 shined up so well, I didn't recognize it at first glance, and the text describing it as the 414th built didn't register, either. But the moment I dropped its VIN number into my mega-spreadsheet, I saw that I had noted in my 'Last seen' column that it was on Craigslist just a few months earlier, and from that I could see in my Craigslist history (including downloaded photos) for it, that it previously had different wheels, incorrectly reupholstered brown cloth seats, no front spare carrier, and a price of just $5500. It's two prior listings showed it much dirtier - see composite photo below. It also has what no other '76 Chalets have, a big swath of black paint across the front of the camper roof.

Yep, as seen in the '76 brochure for these, the interior had a passengerside closet and vinyl-covered dinette seats. The cab seats were also covered in the same vinyl material and were low-backs. 1977 Blazers had cloth orange-plaid cab seats, but the dinette seats were tan vinyl. So, some prior owner swapped in the tall-back van style cab seats, and the current ebay seller was just guessing on what would pass for original-looking seat material.

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For sale now. Not mine. But I know they are hard to find and this one seems fairly priced.

http://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/cto/5822959215.html

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Has anyone looked at this one on CL in Kent, Washington? I'm trying to convince the wife we NEED a Chalet.....

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You might put a call out on the 67-72 pickup board to see if any one can help you. Lots more folks on that part of the forum. Good luck with the search for help and the wife.

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Second one in two days.
http://eugene.craigslist.org/cto/5842531140.html

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Sort of. This Kent WA one is Chalet #1102, the same one that was the initial topic of this 2013 thread here. It may look ok, but as I noted in post #10 in that old thread, it looks like it's been de-roofed at some point, and these rigs aren't worth $5 grand when they have that big of a problem with them. But the one thing in favor of this rig is that the seller said he had an original Chinook blueprint for the camper unit. Try as I might, I've attempted to get guys to go over there to get copies of whatever he has, but the seller is not especially open to sharing what he has. And since the seller hasn't been able to sell it after all this time, that might be an indication that the rig has other major problems with it.

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Thanks for the input. I'll keep looking. Gotta love this forum-lots of good friends here!

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You're welcome. Consider joining our Chalet owners'/enthusiasts' forum (link below in my sig) - I'm a bit behind updating the big 'for sale' list there (which corresponds to this general city location map), but I'll get to it soon. If only I could win a lottery and hire a staff to keep it all updated on a weekly basis ....

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This one is from Reno but I saw in on the Portland C/L.
http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/cto/5859687762.html

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Chalet #1426, built in 10/76. Strange details on the selling of this one, I saw it in the Reno Craigslist at $8 grand, but for less than a day after October 24th, and with a different set of photos (see one below) / different contact number. It got a shine-up for this latest round, and is now on ebay with a hefty markup. Hate to say it, it's overpriced by over twice what it's worth, considering its unrestored condition and the unmistakable rust.

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If you call it patina you can charge more for it. :lol:

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Here is a rough one in FL.

http://spacecoast.craigslist.org/cto/5900515536.html

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You aren't aware of it because of the different presentation of it, but this is the same Chalet #1102 which you had in your post #46 in this thread. It was first featured here in this 2013 thread, where I told how the Seattle seller informed me that he had the original Chinook factory blueprint for it. That guy more or less continuously listed and relisted it up until October, and then it showed up in Florida. I never knew it had no interior, so it was never worth the original $5 grand asking price or the $500 price increase, and now it certainly isn't worth $5 grand (as seen in the other parallel listing for it https://orlando.craigslist.org/cto/5899429405.html ). That's basically what these sell for when they are fully equipped but modded too far out of collectible value range.

If this is a new seller, I wonder if he got the blueprint. He doesn't respond to emails sent in via the temporary Craigslist email addresses.

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Rough 77 Chalet that probably needs everything.

https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/6158751276.html

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Chalet #1248, never did get a build date from the seller, though. Being parked in the WA state rainforest for so long probably renders this one to be a parts truck and not much more.

While we're at it, two others on ebay: This http://www.ebay.com/itm/252991847468 is the 6th listing for Chalet #0480 since April 15th. The seller originally misidentified it as #0007 but finally got around to showing the serial # plate and VIN tag in this listing. And this other one http://www.ebay.com/itm/292152311836 showed up for the first time yesterday, no reply yet from the seller on what its serial # and build date is.

For those who forget, we identify these by the 4 digit serial # on the back, as seen in this photo composite of my former Chalet #1747.

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Here's a Chalet on CL in Los Angeles: https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sf...213528368.html

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This is Chalet #0580, the "dusty field find" one I alerted folks to right around a year ago right here. Was flipped through one other seller almost immediately, and the current owner is a member of the CK5 forum with a re-build thread on it, but I guess he lost interest.

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Chalet #7: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1976-Chevrol...NY8iJQ&vxp=mtr

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Actually not Chalet #0007, despite what the seller claims, and he knows better than that, anyway. I'm guessing that out of laziness, he's copied 'n pasted his very first ebay listing of this one from mid April. He re-listed it 5 more times through to mid June, and now this latest one is his 7th listing. I never got a reply from him via ebay's messaging system on what the serial number was, nor could I prompt him to post one more photo of the serial number plate, but one of our forum members who's actively looking to buy one of these got a photo of the plate out of an associate of his during the 4th listing, it is actually Chalet #0480 built in 7/76. In the 5th listing, the seller didn't say it was #7 anymore, just that it was a "barn find."

Mightly optimistic price on it this whole time, junkers like this tend not to sell any higher than maybe $1500. One of our guys was speculating that the passenger side rear quarter had been replaced at some point since it has the later-years square fuel filler door while original '76s had the round caps. Not a good sign overall on the quality of the body.

While I know of this one, I never turn down alerts about these since my so-so search links do miss many Craigslist ads and even some ebay listings.

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Looks to be a primo Chalet that's going to cross the auction block next month. Not mine.

https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0120-39...blazer-chalet/

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Took me a while to find the time to look this one up in my pile of references. It's Chalet #0653, built in 8/76.

Primo? 'Fraid not. I have pics of when I first spotted it in a Roscommon MI Craigslist ad for $5500 in June 2010, and from the looks of it now, essentially no restoration work has been done to it beyond swapping out the aftermarket chrome spoke wheels for rallys. Same non-original camper area carpet, same house-style doorknob on the camper door, same skewed rear bumper with the rumples on the top passenger side, same scuffed-up area on the upper rear passenger side where a porch light was probably installed, same faded rear door decal.

As most hard-core car guy afficianados know, the money value in classics is in the properly-restored-to-factory-showroom-appearance vehicles. This ain't it, all it has going for it is a heckuva superficial spit-shine.

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Sold - $20,900: https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0120-39...blazer-chalet/

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Around twice or a bit more than it was actually worth, compared to others in better or more restored condition that I've seen in recent years.

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Here's one listed in Minneapolis: https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/h...103670126.html

Nice interior pieces

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Obtuse as Craigslist is about trying to prevent Google from doing national searches of it, this one doesn't show up in my bookmarked search link. Thanks for catching it, where I would have otherwise missed the listing! It's Chalet #0487, built in 8/76, which was previously listed by the prior owner last November for $2700 in the identical condition. Mighty optimistic price for that much rust.

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Here’s one posted by another member: https://westernmass.craigslist.org/c...144950797.html

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=808162

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Chalet #1751 built in 11/76. For a bit more on what a prior owner did in repairs, see this blog site: https://blazerchalet1751.wordpress.c...-done-to-1751/

It's been on Facebook Marketplace https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...74045203548988 since last September at that same asking price, which either might be a good indicator that the seller is a bit optimistic on his price for a much-modded-way-from-collector-value-factory-stock, or else it indicates how effective FB Marketplace is for selling vehicles.

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Only $119k dollars? What a great deal.... https://www.ebay.com/itm/17486615861...oAAOSwIPdhBKhZ

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Yep. Chalet #1221, built in 9/76.

The longer backstory is this is the same seller that succeeded (so far) in auctioning off the Michigan Chevy dealership Chalet #0429 'unrestored low miles time-capsule original' for $125,000 ... that had a used car dealership plate on the back. All other bidders dropped out after the $47,500 mark on that one, leaving only two guys who apparently had more money than God to bid on it. Either one of them could have bought the rig for cash from the seller for $59,900 (an unrealistic price, I thought) before it was placed in auction. Hence, the asking price for this one at $119k. I highly doubt they'll get that price, or anything particularly close to it. It has a variety of restoration faults going on which significantly affects the 'dealership showroom new appearance' collector value. At least the stripe color sequence error was somewhat corrected (in non-original hues compared to what's seen in GM brochures and magazine ads) from the way it was seen in its donk wheels debut video -- notice in the last few seconds of the video, its roof really wanted to take off flying: https://www.facebook.com/thesandmand...4405743572974/

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This one seems to be listed for auction on Bring a trailer. Oh, and just for fun, it appears I started this thread back in 2007. LOL

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...vrolet-chalet/

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This latest Chalet at the Bring a Trailer auction is #0579, built in 8/76.

Meanwhile, I can offer updates of several of the rigs seen in previous posts within this particular thread.

- The mega-lift Chalet #0251 in posts 16 & 19 is seen for sale in a current San Diego Craigslist ad, where the seller has dropped its prices at least 3 times by multi-thousand dollar increments going back to last August.
- Chalet #1460 in post #39 is back for sale again in Utah by either the same owner - unsold after all this time - or by the next owner/flipper after him.
- Chalet #1203 in post #49, with its non-original refurbished interior and glued-down roof went unsold with 4 price drops for the next 2 years to half its original asking price, then ended up in CA with a $4 grand price hike to $9500 with no change to its condition, and then the seller lucked out on eBay by selling it for over $20 grand to an apparently very unsuspecting bidder who had no idea the interior was non-original or that the roof was non-operable.
- Chalet #1426 in posts 53 & 54 was bizarrely demanded to be repainted incorrectly by a billionaire (so I'm told) owner of a classic car restoration shop/dealership last June and then offered for $94,000, but in an online bid auction in Sept, it only got to $30,000.
- Chalet #1221 in post #73 is still available through the consignment seller at $72,900, but in that classic car dealer's second attempt to bid-auction it on eBay for the owner, the bidding topped out at $35,100, which is a fairly good indication that the owner needs to scale way back on his value expectations.

Meanwhile, not mentioned in this thread but instead mentioned here at 67-72Chev in this thread, post #14 is the Chalet #0058 that popped up in Texas after its brief bit of fame at the 2009 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction. It reappeared at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction just over two weeks ago in pretty much the same condition as it was 13 years ago (but with its recently buckled hood repaired), and the top bid was $30,000 (+$3 grand in commissions), which arguably sets the benchmark for the relative values of these things, somewhat similar to what the above BaT auction did. However, it reappeared just days ago in a Mankato MN classic car dealership ….. at just short of double the price.

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Thanks for the updates. Fun to follow these.

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Chalet project $6950. Not mine.


https://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/c...474689820.html

Great old idaho blazer
Bad paint. no real rust
Fuel injected
New hood, hsve rear bumper
Crate motor
Solid tranny
Missing tailgate
I have a chalet shell and top. #1519
solid, all windows otherwise gutted interior.
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Trades??

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Thanks!! I spotted his other 1-day-earlier listing of it, and my Google Alerts email thing did manage to pick up the listing you found and alert me to it (more often than not, Google misses these, which is why I rely on many of you guys to catch 'em).

This one appeared last year around this time in a Coeur D Alene Craigslist ad under (I assume) the prior owner, who didn't share its camper unit serial number. Took me two email tries with the current seller, and likely others might have also asked about it -- he replied back with its number while also adding a pic of the serial number plate to his ad here. It's another new one for my mega-spreadsheet list that fills the gap between #s 1517 and 1521.

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Did they only use odd numbers in the sequence?

Edit: Read through post again and see that there were even numbers used also.