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 for rigs that had sizeable restoration problems that the buyers were probably oblivious to. In this auction, if you go back down into the bids, the last of the three bidders topped out at $47,500, and from that point on it was between just two guys, both of whom appeared to be totally unaware of the initial $59,900
Hemmings / sellers' website price or the subsequent Buy-it-Now $69,900 ebay price. Essentially, the auction winner could have bought it at the first price and then set fire to a $65 grand stack of $100 bills to have exactly the same result he has today. The losing bidder, by the way, is the same guy
who won the other BaT auction on Feb 25 for the allegedly 57 miles '75 Blazer at $112 grand.
Remember, this Chalet is said to be a Chevy dealership time capsule that never left the family ownership from 1976 to late last year. The thing that still concerns me about this rig is that the sellers never did provide an answer about whether a sales receipt exists showing what kind of work a New York state used car dealership did to the rig that warranted them gluing their lot's plate to the back of the camper unit, and they never did completely answer the request to provide a photo of the
reverse side of the title. A title, for emphasis, with an undated sales transfer, and no official Michigan printout figure for the mileage when it was printed in 2009.
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