I have been looking for a nice one of these for years and one finally showed up.
They were made in the Colt Custom Shop in 1989 with a run of 400.
I am puzzled why they were made with a Gold Cup lower and three dot combat sights.
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I was watching this on Gunbroker. Wasn't really interested in bidding, but wanted to see how it did. Glad it found a good home!
Mongo like....
Recently saw an all stainless version of that for sale somewhere...
Can't remember...
a mind is a terrible thing to have...
;D ;)
Very nice! Congrats.
1 of 400...it's no wonder yours is the first one I have ever seen or even heard of.
Very Nice Beemer, never knew they existed...thanks for sharing & Congrats! 8)
Nice pick up Beemer. I bought two of those back in the early 90s, one for me and one for my brother.
My brother died two years ago and his son sold a bunch of his guns not too long ago. Makes me wonder if you ended up with his gun. Pretty darn coincidental that you get this uncommon gun around the time my brother's was sold.
I also think that neither one of us shot those guns either.
Quote from: Vice on January 22 2019 06:20:57 PM MST
Nice pick up Beemer. I bought two of those back in the early 90s, one for me and one for my brother.
My brother died two years ago and his son sold a bunch of his guns not too long ago. Makes me wonder if you ended up with his gun. Pretty darn coincidental that you get this uncommon gun around the time my brother's was sold.
I also think that neither one of us shot those guns either.
Anything is possible. Do you remember the serial numbers, this one is UO019?
It shipped out of Vermont.
That would be so cool. I am keeping my fingers crossed!
I don't know the numbers. My gun is in a safe buried with junk in front of it. Would take 20-30 min to dig out.
But his gun was sold in CA, I'm assuming since that is where my nephew lives.
Enjoy your new piece, it's a keeper!
As far as the Gold Cup lowers; I had a Colt collector tell me that Colt could get rid of those lowers with more profit this way rather than making GC slides.
Funny thing was, I picked up a 45 cal in the same configuration a few years later from a different dealer.
I have been told by guys that are close to Colt that special runs like this often used up extra or left over parts that they wanted to move.
They made a Gold Cup Commander up that I have seen but do not own that had the 3 dot combat sights instead of the adjustable target sights. I never figured that one out either.
I have heard this as well. Not a bad business model either. Take parts that are probably effectively free from an accounting standpoint, assemble guns from them as "special editions" and sell them at a small premium.