Where is everyone #5

I understand that completely. Was watching the car auction last night and a 2018 FordGT with 16 miles went for $800k. I wouldn’t want a car with 16 miles on, I rather have the one with 100k on the odometer.

BUT if the GT40 belonged to a road racer like Paul Newman or Steve McQueen, I wouldn’t put that car on the road.

 

Lots of guns inside of course

 

I met a guy the other week that mentioned he has 750+ firearms. Boy - did I have questions.

I made the mistake after discussing a rare 1911 frame gun - asking if he’d fired it.

Yeah - that’s not how that game works.

 

Guess I’m going up to my buddy’s shop, start tearing the 455 apart for his 67 GTO restore….

 

And old steel, modern loads. My Dad had a nickel plated S & W .38 Special. Pistol had a smallish, rounded back grip with a 6 inch barrel. I was told his twin brother had a similar in blue steel,
As long as I could remember seeing it, it was between the mattress and box spring's of his and mothers bed with a little candy sack of cartridges.
Way after he died, I wrote Smith about the pistol. Gave SN# and asked if I could get them to rebarrel it to a 4 inch. As was; smallish grip and long barrel, it did not feel right in my hand. Also asked age.

Got a very nice letter back. Said the pistol was shipped to XXXXCo. in New Orleans on date.(....)
Further said due to its age, and it's possible usage, and with the availability of more powerful cartridges they would not change the pistol. Stated it was worth more as is to a collector than rebarreled.

Since a pistol that don't (didn't) work for me or a knife that won't hold an edge is useless to me,
I gave it to my brother. I kept the 9mm Browning we had "ahem" come by thru some dealing with local LE.
Now, I do not remember the name of the company in New Orleans, nor the exact date I wrote Smith.
Dad was born in 1881 and died in 1950. He and his twin ran away from home and a mean stepmother at age 12 and began logging with an uncle. So let us give him till 1900 to buy the pistol.
I think it was in about 1960 that I wrote Smith, so you can see their point on working on a 60 year old pistol, assuming i was shipped prior to 1900.
I wish I had kept the letter but again,not my thing, pass it on. Brother is in a nurshing home and bad dementia now. No one knows what happened to it.

 

I understand @MACK E-6 's point, but my own would be along the lines that I don't need that expensive of a gun, just to keepsake it, not using it, whereas the replica would allow me to use it, while still keeping the novelty of it. Growing up, it wasn't the rifle that was so exceptional, it was that big custom made enlarged lever loop and the movement he used to recock it that was so special...and that, would be of interest for using it the same way, if only to experience it first hand.

 

I think we share similar ideas of what being rich entails.

 

Kinda ugly out there

 

Someone once said it in a song—“Handguns are made for kill’n, they ain’t no good for nuth’n else”