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Originally Posted by 1968k20
Found a Chalet in my neighborhood. What do you think that they are worth? ....
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I covered that with my couple of paragraphs I added to the old blazerchalet site in its "Buying & Selling" section at
this page -- the basic nutshell of the value idea is the combination of how much you'd be willing to pay for a rig that is not beyond salvaging, then factoring in how much it costs you parts-wise and time-wise to get it up to either usable daily driver / daily camping status, or to the level of factory showroom new appearance. The value of it is the point where you'd refuse a cash offer from some guy at the end of all your work because it's too far below your break-even point.
Start at too high of an entrance cost, pile in all the costs for fixing it up, and then try to sell it for double what other rigs of equal levels of restoration go for, and then you realize you paid far more than what it was worth out of the gate.
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Originally Posted by 1968k20
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Eek. Not looking good, but hard to tell with that photo if I'm seeing crumbly sills or reflected light on the ground under the truck. Rigs that have been stored a long time out in the elements which don't have terminal rust in the bottom of the truck tubs tend not to be worth much more than two grand, tops. If the truck can't be salvaged, you might have a camper worth no more than $300-$500 (if it is in better than average shape) and whatever the value of the salvageable old Chevy parts are worth.
Yep, a few orphaned camper units and a few complete rigs have sold for big bucks, but that's more of a factor of the buyers being oblivious to other comparable units/rigs out there for half the price.
On this particular one, can you at least snag the serial number and build date from
the plate by the back door? I have the impossible goal of trying to track every one of these that was built.