- This 1989 Chevrolet Blazer K5 is all-original, with just 21 miles logged on its odometer
- The truck is coming up for auction via Mecum in late March 2025
- It last traded hands a year ago, at Barrett-Jackson, fetching US$154,000
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There are low-mile classic cars, and then there are low-mile classic cars. Y’know, the sort owned by those nuts who resist driving the thing for 35-odd years, who’ve kept the plastic on the seats and the Monroney sticker in the window, and who sealed it away in temperature-controlled storage even before the dealer prep was performed? Yeah. The 1989 Chevy Blazer K5 you see here is one of those low-mile classic cars. The odometer reads just 21 miles (34 km).
It’s typically super-low-volume or wee-specced limited editions that get this mind-blowing sort of treatment when new, put away in hopes they’ll appreciate in value better than the Dow Jones. But this Blazer, set to cross the auction block via Mecum in late March, wears a handsome-if-dour gray paint; rocks a 5.7-litre V8; and is limited in options to the preferred equipment group (A/C, power tinted windows, cruise control), a removable hardtop, and a heavy-duty trailering package.
It’s nothing particularly special—except that it’s absolutely all-original, almost exactly like you’d see in the Chevy showroom in 1989. Consider our jaws on the floor.
Mecum Auctions is selling the thing off with no reserve, which means whatever the highest bid is will take it. And what is a 21-mile ’89 Blazer worth exactly? Well, we have a good idea, considering the thing last saw the auction block just about a year ago, when Barrett-Jackson helped it trade hands for US$154,000. The fact classic trucks are one of the hottest segments among Millennial-aged collectors surely played a factor in that price, which set a record for the model.
We’ll be curious to see if it nets any more this time around. For context, Classic.com puts the average price for an ’89 K5 at about US$35,000; and a new 2025 Chevrolet Blazer is just about CDN$44,000 on the bottom end of the range. We’ll update this article with the number after the K5’s sale on March 21 at Mecum’s Glendale, Arizona event.
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