Colt 1911 (1939) Stainless .45 ACP Rare,Rare, Rare

elvjeep · Post by **elvjeep** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:03 am

Would anyone like to see a GunBroker [bullshit] ripoff gun for buy it now for.........................$350 thousand dollars

http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.a ... =109947150

lawless · Post by **lawless** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:16 am

beadblast beadblast.

David Hineline · Post by **David Hineline** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:19 am

The Magnaporting and aftermarket sights adds at least $50,000 value to these collectable firearms.

Post by **silencertalk** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:05 am

Anyone notice that Colt certificate says 'Finish: Blue?"

Millet sights. Niiiice.

Magneporting is the ultimate in gayness. A dealer ordered a 454 for me with it and 'assumed I would want it as everyone does' and I had him return it.

Blaubart · Post by **Blaubart** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:34 am

I couldn't even make it past the first sentence of the description before my trust in the seller was destroyed.

"We are offering an auction with no Reserve..."

Current Bid $200,050.00 Reserve Not Met

OkieSnoop · Post by **OkieSnoop** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:47 am

If it's 'stainless' .....Why is it rusting around the edges?
Assholes like this guy should be prosicuted for fraud!!!

Blaubart · Post by **Blaubart** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:58 am

Or better yet, win the auction using a bogus account and arrange to pay the guy in cash in an industrial section of a city after dark. The rest of the plan should be self explanatory.

Mongo · Post by **Mongo** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:27 pm

I like how he determines it is stainless because he hit the metal with a file and therefore it is. WTF, does he have a magic metallurgy file? Now the file that tells you metallurgy might be worth 350K but not that beater of a Colt.

flip · Post by **flip** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:47 pm

Got to give him some credit, he has one idiot in at $200K.

3101 · Post by **3101** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:12 pm

fuckin' douche nozzle....

renegade · Post by **renegade** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:53 pm

flip wrote:Got to give him some credit, he has one idiot in at $200K.

Reserve not met. So instead of having $200K, seller has that beater pistol....

flip · Post by **flip** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:03 pm

renegade wrote:
flip wrote:Got to give him some credit, he has one idiot in at $200K.
Reserve not met. So instead of having $200K, seller has that beater pistol....

I would be burning up the phone to get to that guy at $200K-morons like that only come along once in awhile.

Come to think of it I could have my arm twisted and only take $195K.

Blaubart · Post by **Blaubart** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:02 pm

When the auction closes and his reserve isn't met, he'll probably contact the 200k bidder and say "Hey, the auction didn't meet my reserve, but I'm willing to sell it for 210k."

(The 200k bidder is probably his other account though)

Conqueror · Post by **Conqueror** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:07 pm

Mongo wrote:I like how he determines it is stainless because he hit the metal with a file and therefore it is. WTF, does he have a magic metallurgy file? Now the file that tells you metallurgy might be worth 350K but not that beater of a Colt.

Not only that, but taking a file to the gun probably ruined whatever tiny bit of collector value it ever had.

YugoRPK · Post by **YugoRPK** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:23 pm

Conqueror wrote:
Mongo wrote:I like how he determines it is stainless because he hit the metal with a file and therefore it is. WTF, does he have a magic metallurgy file? Now the file that tells you metallurgy might be worth 350K but not that beater of a Colt.
Not only that, but taking a file to the gun probably ruined whatever tiny bit of collector value it ever had.

And the magnaporting didnt?

3101 · Post by **3101** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:26 pm

the Millet sights made up for the magna porting.....so it was a wash

hell, he wants to sell it for 350K and then charge 25 bucks shipping......think if I hit "buy now" he will cut the shipping in half??????

Conqueror · Post by **Conqueror** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:36 pm

Personally I really like the idiot mark on the frame and the screw marks from a long-lost trigger shoe.

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:52 pm

The certificate from Colt says that it was shipped to Sewall's Point, VA in 1939, but Sewell's Point was annexed from Norfolk County and incorporated into the City of Norfolk in 1923.

But yeah, that ain't stainless.

What's the "idiot mark" on the frame? Are you talking about the scratch from inserting the slide stop?

Conqueror · Post by **Conqueror** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:06 pm

Yes, that's commonly referred to as an "idiot mark." Left by someone who tinkered without knowing how to properly reassemble the pistol.

Diomed · Post by **Diomed** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:17 am

I think ya'll may have hurt the seller's feelings, since the auction's been cancelled.