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Regarding the VINs, maybe, but not exactly. I am the caretaker of the old blazer chalet.com website (Aaron S was the creator, Doug W was the co-creator who is figeratively the "owner" as far as I'm concerned), but if Aaron had whatever registry you are referring to beyond what's found in archive...

Cool! Keep in mind I'm the guy trying to track down all of these still in existence. Sent you a PM back on 8/6 about what you used to have, info you might have saved. Pics are always worth a thousand words, and what I can always use are the VINs for the trucks and serial # / build dates for the...

See post #3 here about that one. Complicated story.

The correct answer is the generator is equally taboo, plus two wrongs don't make a right.

Being still relegated to tent camping, I was once again at my favorite campground above Ouray this summer. Near perfect vacation except for what I described 5 years back in this thread: the inability of two sets of nearby campers to respect others by keeping their 'camp tunes' to themselves. I...

Significantly more complicated story behind this particular one. It’s Chalet #0589, built in 8/76, I first saw it in a series of Spokane WA / Idaho Craigslist ads back in 2007. It later ended up in a Dallas Craigslist ad in 2014, and was bought by one of the guys in our Yahoo Chalet forum who...

If that was the one in the attached photo below, I was lucky to catch the seller in time to have him tell me it was Chalet #0404 built in 8/76. Thanks for that heads-up! That one is Chalet #1203 built in 10/76. It's been bopping around in Craigslist ads in that area in one form or another since...

Some hopeful news now - the realtor replied moments ago that she would forward the link I sent to her about our (primitive, compared to ExPo) Yahoo Autos Groups Chalet/Casa Grande owners & enthusiasts forum. Might indicate the owner is keeping it, and may want to do more with it.

The realtor replied a short time ago, "the truck has already been removed from the properties."

That's fun, and I'm always indebted to all the eyes out there who can spot these for me. Pretty much all '76s look alike, Chevys and GMC versions with the same basic color combo, so I'm always looking for small details that differentiate this model year. On this one, it's the two tall black...

Incorrect name from the Craigslist seller, it's a Blazer Chalet, appears to be a '77 camper unit. Orphaned camper units in lousy shape tend to be worth not much more than $200, so the rest of the truck needs to be worth $3300 there.

First, I'm waaaay late in surfing back into Expo, but in doing so I landed at this thread in a search for Chalets in general. Yes, indeed, the above Reno Chalet is/was massively overpriced, it was previously and most famously seen as the Chalet #0058 in the 2009 Barrett-Jackson auction where it...

Or, a variation on that theme, a '74-'91 "squarebody" Blazer or GMC Jimmy, modded to your heart's content, combined with an orphaned Chalet or Casa Grande camper unit that's been gutted and outfitted with lighter, modern interior bits. You could start as low budget as you can afford with the...

Yep, I have my fun with the impossible dream of tracking down every one of these still in existence, and along the way it has been entertaining to see the way some of these bop from speculator seller to speculator seller. A few think these are "Antiques Roadshow" garage sale finds that can be...

Always glad when folks spot these for the times when my so-so national site-specific searches of Craigslist turns up nothing. Not helpful to the seller when the rig is called "totally original" when it obviously has front fender panel replacements. More subtle to most is the non-original...

Saw a guy do that with a Studebaker decades ago. Very hard to pull off.

Too late. Now appearing with a different set of wheels and a bigger price. https://inlandempire.craigslist.org/cto/5742812566.html

Knowledge is power and networking is priceless, I always say. Yep, it is a hobby of mine. I started my mega-spreadsheet back when the ebay seller of Chalet #0310 said there were only 40 Chalets left in existence, as a means of bolstering the value of his rusted wreck, which had the top blown...

No idea. All I saw of it was that single ebay listing, which I keep as a contact in our big 'for sale' list at the Chalet forum. Though not likely, the guy may have elected to keep it, which does happen with other ebay/Craigslist ones occasionally. Almost none of the sellers I contact let me...

Chalet #1037, already listed twice on ebay here and here, with the first auction win apparently falling through. Ones in this rough of shape are hard to unload anywhere except locally for their parts value content. If the truck body isn't salvageable, you basically just have an orphaned camper...