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A tragic end to Chalet #1547. Unless I misplaced it among email exchanges years back I never got the VIN for the Blazer to add to my mega-spreadsheet list of these. Could you post a photo of the driver's side door jamb with the VIN sticker, or is the blue & white RPO tag still in the glove...

As I said many years ago in this same thread, I drive over 500 miles to my favorite Colorado campground in order to have one week away from big city noise, and when most folks have access to big city luxuries that they can return to after their camping trip, perhaps it would not kill them to do...

I forgot about this thread, was looking for other Chalet images in a Google search tonight and the photo of this #0058 Chalet with its buckled hood in the first post was in the search results. I can update its travels around the country: The last I saw of it in Reno Craigslist ads was one in...

Thanks for spotting that newest listing! I was still going by the guy's Dec 2 ad, which I'll have to update at my Google 'for sale' map tomorrow for all the rigs / orphaned camper units I know of out there. Tough to catch all of these, which is why I'm grateful for anybody who spots ones I miss...

That happens, which is why I thank you for preserving it. I learned that lesson the hard way back in 2005 when I was first searching for one myself,** where I thought ebay & Craigslist ads were permanent things on da interwebs. When I figured out how they sometimes vanished in mere days, that's...

Well, nuts, I logged in here too late to catch the functioning link in time, it's now marked as deleted by seller. However, many thanks for preserving this way, I screengrabbed your post here to go into my paper printouts pile. I'm still maintaining my mega-spreadsheet of these, with the...

After around 16 years of scouring the internet for sales ads of Chevy Blazer Chalets and GMC Jimmy Casa Grandes, I've seen a particular pattern on ridiculous claims. "All-original" Uh, huh … with the exception of the clearly aftermarket wheels, larger diameter mudder tires, the lift kit, the...

Fun vintage GM promo film, and entertaining for me because prior to this evening, I've never seen either a '76 or '77 Chalet with plaid dinette seats. At the 4:35 point it shows a clearly '77 model year rig, but when we see the camper interior, it has plaid dinette seats and the fake straight...

That one is Casa Grande #1457 built in 12/76. While it looks fabulous and retro-looking, it suffers in its basic value (where arguably all the value for these is either in an untarnished time-capsule original or a dead nuts accurate restoration) because it was repainted in a noticably...

Well, an argument could be made that we both called it, in a technical sense. My own private prediction was that the seemingly more skeptic buyers there (compared to ebay or the couple of Mecum auctions) would top out at $35 or $40 grand, since that's what the top end sales figures were lately...

This is Chalet #0429, built in 7/76. I'm more of a pessimist on its ultimate price, so long as truly informed bidders are bidding on it at an auction site which leans more toward such buyers, compared to the uninformed kind of buying happening on ebay / Craigslist and a couple of the Mecum...

That one is the now-orphaned camper unit from Chalet #1664, built in 11/76, I watched the seller describe the removal of it in a couple of Facebook posts from the rig he found in a Massachusetts junkyard. Actually, the value of these orphaned units drops like a rock when separated from the...

Been delinquent on venturing into ExPo for quite a while. Anyway, the above rig is Chalet #1513, built in 1/77. Key thing on buying one of these for a reasonable price is to catch these before the classic car dealer/flippers snag 'em and attempt to resell 'em for double the price they paid. I...

Seven-time veteran of Black Bear …. never drove it once. First pic below, that's me in the big hat, right front row in 2012, where the Jeepers behind us caught up later and asked if we could exchange email photos I took of them for ones they took of us. Still poor and relegated to my 3" ground...

The filled-in front windows cures the leak problem, that's for sure. But if you haven't gotten to it yet, another cure would be a bit of fiberglass re-engineering to get the roof to overlap the walls rather than sit on top of them. Many of the other built-for-purpose-rather-than-collectibility...