So I'm sitting here, watching "My Classic Car" on the tube, and they're doing a story about the "Beatersville" car show... I think in Louisville, KY.
We all know what a "ratrod" is. A DIY hotrod with a nice patina of primer, rust, grease and baked on roadkill bits. Usually, they go like a sumbitch, are noisy, may have lawn chairs for seats, don't handle well... but give you the warm fuzzies all over.
Does anyone have, what they would consider, a "ratgun"? Something that is so ugly you'd have trouble giving it away, let alone selling it... but, and this is the big but, it's a gun you love, shoot often and perhaps even carry every day?
I just gave my favorite ratgun to my daughter... a Star PD .45ACP that, even though has nearly all the blue worn off, and most of the checkering worn off the grips as well, shoots 2.5" at 25 yds all day and never once failed to fire in over 20 years of carry... and for them that know what a Star PD is, the frame is still in good shape!
My last remaining ratgun is a .32ACP Seecamp that actually survived a fire in '95, and I never bothered to get all the smoke stains and interesting coloring off of it. I did break down and buy a new set of grips because the originals were kinda melty... but other than that, it's got all the ugly, all the time.
A friend has a gen 1 Glock 17 that looks like the dog used it for a chew toy... then tossed it into a chemical fire. I'm going to e-mail him and see if he'll post a pic.
Anyone else? Pics would rock!
C
We all know what a "ratrod" is. A DIY hotrod with a nice patina of primer, rust, grease and baked on roadkill bits. Usually, they go like a sumbitch, are noisy, may have lawn chairs for seats, don't handle well... but give you the warm fuzzies all over.
Does anyone have, what they would consider, a "ratgun"? Something that is so ugly you'd have trouble giving it away, let alone selling it... but, and this is the big but, it's a gun you love, shoot often and perhaps even carry every day?
I just gave my favorite ratgun to my daughter... a Star PD .45ACP that, even though has nearly all the blue worn off, and most of the checkering worn off the grips as well, shoots 2.5" at 25 yds all day and never once failed to fire in over 20 years of carry... and for them that know what a Star PD is, the frame is still in good shape!
My last remaining ratgun is a .32ACP Seecamp that actually survived a fire in '95, and I never bothered to get all the smoke stains and interesting coloring off of it. I did break down and buy a new set of grips because the originals were kinda melty... but other than that, it's got all the ugly, all the time.
A friend has a gen 1 Glock 17 that looks like the dog used it for a chew toy... then tossed it into a chemical fire. I'm going to e-mail him and see if he'll post a pic.
Anyone else? Pics would rock!
C