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Section 8: Handguns Subject: Blue Colt Msg# 1107310
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| If that were in the configuration I wanted, the color would not stop me from buying but it wouldn’t be my first choice. | ||||||
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: This is a message to all. This photo popped up on the home page. See my original comment below. Three years later I note in checking that Colt no longer catalogues this pistol in "Kimber Blue." Apparently the consumers who buy 1911s for looks above all didn't flock to Colt for them. Colt still sells a couple of models with what are now almost traditional gray or green frames, dead common with plastic pistols, less common with steel or aluminum frames, but then Springfield offers them by the dozens. But this pretty pretty blue must not have resonated with customers who buy the Colt product. I have to ask out loud, did Colt learn anything from this? Colt has been trying to re-learn their identity for thirty or more years, I'm afraid.... Image below from Mark Freburg - Image Title: photos  |
