Pretty decent looking 1977 Blazer Chalet-denver craigslist

[77blazerchalet]

Originally Posted by jlmerie

This one seems to be listed for auction on Bring a trailer. ... https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...vrolet-chalet/

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.

[DeadheadNM]

Thanks for the updates. Fun to follow these.

[HO455]

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.
Call or text Neil
Trades??

[77blazerchalet]

Originally Posted by HO455

Chalet project $6950. Not mine. ....

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.

[Willowrun]

Did they only use odd numbers in the sequence?

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

[77blazerchalet]

http://brochures.slosh.com/chalet/treasuresearch-52.jpg

Originally Posted by Willowrun

Did they only use odd numbers ...?
Edit: Read through post again and see that there were even numbers ....

Yep, but the thing that got a bit hokey toward the end of Chinook's making of these was the stamped dates for manufacture. In '76 and up through most of '77, the manufacturing dates pretty much went in logical sequence with the rising serial numbers. Seems they made many in batches during particular months. Toward the end, I've seen rigs with stamped dates in the serial number plates that are January '77 for corresponding serial numbers that are lower than others that are stamped 12/76, as seen in the attached photo. Meanwhile, the lone figure for the total produced - allegedly 1,780 - comes from the second paragraph of this magazine article, but as the photo shows below, there is a GMC Casa Grande with a serial number of #1799. My guess is some Chinook employee might have stamped out more plates than needed for the last of their camper units, and maybe the other employees just stamped in dates regardless of whether the dates were getting out of sequence with the serial numbers.

[Willowrun]

Very interesting info, thank you. I was around 5 year old when these came out so I don't remember seeing them when new but we had a neighbor down the road move in that had one in the mid-late 80's. He was an auto painter so he had his K5 and Chalet camper painted a deep purple almost black. It was done really well but as a teenager I didn't like the non-original color and I also didn't understand why his K5 had a weird looking camper on it.

As I grew older I've realized how cool they are and how cool his K5 was.

[77blazerchalet]

Originally Posted by Willowrun

...we had a neighbor down the road move in that had one in the mid-late 80's. He was an auto painter so he had his K5 and Chalet camper painted a deep purple almost black. ....

I gleaned a rather pixely photo like that off the internet way back when I was first looking for one in 2005. My photo was tagged Tishomingo, OK, so I think it was from a Craigslist ad ...

[HO455]

Nice one on Bring a Trailer. Not mine. I like the upholstery.


https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...let-blazer-17/

[77blazerchalet]

Originally Posted by HO455

Nice one on Bring a Trailer. Not mine. I like the upholstery.

Chalet #0414 built in 7/76. The plaid cloth upholstery is nicer than the factory original all-vinyl offering, but that's just it. It's a non-original reupholstery job done in 2016, so if buyers/bidders are thinking they are getting something original, they will be disappointed. Back when it was being eBay auctioned in 2016 by a Boise dealer who was also accepting offers at his dealership, one person alerted me to how the dealer wanted to include a spare engine because the original had a knock problem, but the guy balked at the purchase because he wanted a collector-value one with a numbers-matching engine. Afterward, when a different guy emailed me through the BlazerChalet website contact address that he had bought it, I replied by asking if the knock problem was solved. About an hour and a half later, the new owner told me he was immediately sending it back.

[HO455]

0414 crossed the auction block again. This time a bit more of money.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...let-k5-blazer/

[77blazerchalet]

Originally Posted by HO455

0414 crossed the auction block again. .....

Saw that, one of the many other guys on the lookout for these alerted me to it. Prior owner had it for less than a year, would be nice if these could stay bought for longer periods of time. Chalet #1683 is yet another example, currently on ebay right now where it appears the current seller got it 4 years back, but his ebay history seems to indicate he's just a classic car dealer/flipper.

[HO455]

A nonoriginal Chalet $12000. Not mine.

https://portland.craigslist.org/clk/...645994704.html

The k5 is located in gig harbor Washington. I got a 1984 k5 blazer with a 90 front clip and a 1976 chalet pop top camper on the back. I will not separate the camper from the k5. The k5 has a fuel injected tpi sbc out of a c4 vette, 700r4 trans and 3/4 ton axles with lockers an 5:13 gears. Runs and drives, it needs some tlc. Everything works in the back, it’s a 80s square body so it does have some rust and needs both rockers.

[77blazerchalet]

Originally Posted by HO455

A nonoriginal Chalet $12000. Not mine ......

Thanks for the alert! Coincidentally, another person alerted me overnight to the '76 Blazer "ex-Chalet" in Spanaway WA at FB Marketplace https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...2923904455381/ and when I contacted the seller, I was told that the above camper unit was the one off their Blazer. So, I contacted the seller of this camper unit to ask if he'd add a photo of the camper serial number plate to his listing, but he said the numbers were too worn off to read. More likely they were very lightly stamped by Chinook employees, I've seen that on the #0058 Chalet that auctioned at the Barrett-Jackson in Jan 2022. I asked the seller to consider adding a photo of that plate anyway and what looks like a state RV tag beneath it, since those state tags (Montana, California, etc) tended to reproduce the Chinook SNs.

[HO455]

Chalet for sale locally.

https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/...679540832.html

1977 Blazer Chalet,all original paint,what you see is all original never restored! But it needs a lot of TLC! Will run onto your trailer (Maybe) rust in drivers rocker and bottom of fenders,a few wobbles, No it’s not ready for the trail but it is a start and some have sold for 125k Done!! Aftermarket front seats,factory air,tilt,cruise. Clear Oregon title in my name.503-781-2214.

[77blazerchalet]

Originally Posted by HO455

Chalet for sale locally https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/...679540832.html

Thanks for spotting this Craigslist version! I missed it, but somebody else alerted me to the FB Marketplace version back in early October, which now is marked as "Sold." https://www.facebook.com/commerce/li...0372216205347/ Seems the seller tacked on another $500 in his Craigslist version. If I have it right, this same seller had offered it previously on Craigslist in much dirtier condition in Feb 2022 for $1000 but was unable to sell it.