$83,000 New Colt

[ladder13]

Factory Engraved 100th Anniversary Colt 1911 : Semi-auto at GunBroker.com

 

[oldman45]

Factory Engraved 100th Anniversary Colt 1911 : Semi-auto at GunBroker.com

So tell us, how does it shoot? Does it fit your hands well?

 

[monet61]

$83,000 Colt

Did I read that right?
"Can't be sold in CA because of it's unique engraving"?
Does that mean any of us that have uniquly(sp) engraved guns can't take them to CA, or do they just not allow sales of them??

 

[ladder13]

Did I read that right?
"Can't be sold in CA because of it's unique engraving"?
Does that mean any of us that have uniquly(sp) engraved guns can't take them to CA, or do they just not allow sales of them??

Maybe there's some "hate speech" hidden in the engraving? Something like firearm or gun?

 

[gunnut44]

Ya but you get to have lunch with all the suits laughing and paying off bets as to how much some nut case would spend. Not even a skeletonized hammer!!!!

 

[BUFF]

It will probably need bigger, better sights and a trigger job...,

 

[venomballistics]

83 Kilobucks ... tasteful though.

 

[Thiokol]

It will be interesting to see if the high bidder actually pays for the gun.

 

[imashooter2]

It's a nice looking piece. If I had more money than I could spend no matter how hard I tried, I'd buy it. I'd shoot the heck out of it too.

Unfortunately, available resources are somewhat lower than "no matter how hard I tried."

 

[ARMinSC]

I'll bid $90K if shipping is through Priority Mail.......... and I win the Powerball

 

[David LaPell]

Must be all that sales tax.

 

[oldman45]

After a person spends that type money on a gun, would it be fired or just a safe queen that only the owner and a few friends gets to see?

 

[28Shooter]

Maybe there's some "hate speech" hidden in the engraving? Something like firearm or gun?

...or maybe "USA" or "America"

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I'm calling BS on this one.....I see a raft of these now coming out of the factory now that this "benchmark" price has been set. Probably at around 5k a piece.

 

[m1gunner]

It is a unique serial number, and 100 years after the designation as the 1911, and from the original manufacturer. There will only be one well known example, and this is it.

Clones will be available, but they will only be copies.

Sorta like those 2 NIW Garands that the gov't sold for $50,000, and they didn't even have any unique ser nos or engraving.

 

[2152hq]

Unique serial numbers have been available from the Custom Shop upon request,,though I imagine anything like this would have been refused knowing what was in the works.

Wether the pistol gains in value or not remains to be seen. It's a commemorative afterall,,but a very unique one at that.
Ones with milestone serial numbers usually get the most attention rather than commemorating X number of years in production.

I would have thought they'd have gone a bit further and given the pistol a full coverage or custom coverage engraving job instead of a 'B' layout.
Haveing 2 of their engravers working on it (one doing the inlay work,,the other the scroll I assume) adds to the job. I'd guess that Steve Kymack did the gold work if that's the way it went but I could be wrong.

Beautiful work though,,no doubt about that.

 

[old bear]

CAJUNLAWYER

From the ad, "authenticated his Colt as the one and only 100th Anniversary 1911 featured as the 2011 SHOT Show gun."

Sir is the word "as" a typo or some loophole language?

 

[rags]

I have now seen it all. It IS possible to PhotoShop a GB listing!!

rags

 

[shooboy]

WOW ! Hmmmm........ me thinks I've got to serialize and engrave some Shooboy Gunsmithing Hammers........ Shoo

 

[GF]

WOW ! Hmmmm........ me thinks I've got to serialize and engrave some Shooboy Gunsmithing Hammers........ Shoo

And put a catchy phrase on 'em...." Celebrating Two Years of Getting Hammered ".

Charge 4X the regular price.

GF