In preparing an article for a gun magazine on the classic Colt Detective Special revolver, I took a picture I\u2019d like to share with you.
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Both machines were manufactured in the year 1930. The automobile left the Ford plant in Detroit, Michigan and became one of the very, very few of its kind to survive the next almost eighty years. It has been restored and even performance enhanced by its current owner, Curtis Rhodes, proprietor of American Auto Body, Inc. at 13508 Highway 90 West in Live Oak, Florida 32060.<\/p>\n
It isn\u2019t transportation, of course, and hasn\u2019t been for decades. It\u2019s an iconic showpiece. You might drive it to the auto show, but few would consider using it for a routine commute.<\/p>\n
The revolver was shipped from the Colt factory in Hartford, Connecticut directly to the New Jersey State Police the same year. The Detective Special lived up to its name, and was issued to an investigator for that agency. It has never been rebuilt, but is still in perfect working order. Presented to the detective by his agency when he retired, the revolver stayed in the family for many years, and eventually found its way to a gun shop. It has been in my collection for a decade now. It still functions perfectly, and will shoot a perfect score on a police qualification course. Though not built for the power of modern +P .38 Special ammunition, it will fire it safely. The Colt Detective Special and its related models were produced from 1926 to approximately 1999, and countless thousands of them still serve to protect American homes and, yes, American police. The current Commissioner of the New York City Police Department carries one in an ankle holster.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t drive our great-grandparents\u2019 cars, or keep our food in their handed-down iceboxes. Yet countless Americans hunt, and protect their families, with the heirloom guns of their forebears. Firearms are simpler devices, evolve more slowly, and take much longer to become obsolete. Finely made examples like this Colt endure. They are the ultimate in \u201cdurable goods.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can buy the 1930 Ford from Curtis Rhodes at curtis01@windstream.net<\/a>. He\u2019s asking $18,000. You can find a classic old \u201cfirst issue\u201d .38 Colt Detective Special on sites such as www.gunbroker.com<\/a> for well under a thousand dollars. Both will be cherished possessions for those inclined to own and appreciate them.<\/p>\n And one is still eminently practical for its intended purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In preparing an article for a gun magazine on the classic Colt Detective Special revolver, I took a picture I\u2019d like to share with you. Both machines were manufactured in the year 1930. The automobile left the Ford plant in Detroit, Michigan and became one of the very, very few of its kind to survive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}