They say 1957 was the happiest year...

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micromontenegro

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Well, that must mean something for me, as I find that three of my favorite revolvers were made in 1957, 1958, and 1959:

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1957 Cobra has the smoothest action I've ever experienced in a snubby. It is a joy to shoot.

1958 M17 3T, becuase it makes it VERY hard to miss what you're shooting at, even for me.

1959 (this one is approximate, but I am quite sure) M30, because it is so darn cute! :D
 
Beautiful revolvers, blued with walnut, not so common these days.:( There were a few nice cars from that era too.;)
 
1957 really was a great year. I turned 16, got my driver's license, and bought a beat-up old 1937 Mercury for $20. Once repaired and on the road, the car enabled me to expand my summer lawn-mowing business. I already had a Stevens double-barrelled 16 gauge shotgun. With the lawn-mowing money, I purchased two additional guns that fall - a pre-transfer bar Ruger Single Six revolver and an older Winchester model 62A gallery gun. (OK, OK, I know that the really authentic gallery guns only fired .22 shorts while mine could handle shorts, longs or long rifles. But still... : )

Alas, in 1958 I enlisted in the Navy and, in a moment of reckless idiocy, sold my guns to a friend. When my enlistment was up and I offered to buy the guns back for a significantly higher price, my friend just grinned and shook his head. I think every gun I have purchased since then has been an attempt to recapture the pride and pleasure I felt in those first three guns.
 
How about a 1958 Buick Roadmaster Limited? My fiance's father owned one and I think this car epitomized all that was right (and wrong) with the gold-plated fifties. This port-holed, heavy-weight, dripping in opulent decadence, had every doo-dad you could get on a car at the time, from the WonderBar radio to the Autronic automatic headlight dimmer and everything in-between. I was allowed to drive the chrome-plated barge on dates and such and did my own "road tests" whenever possible. It accelerated like a hog sprinting on ice and cornered like a rhino on a wet, clay bank-but, when it came to turnpike cruising, even Bentleys had to take a backseat to this icon of the fifties era of American conspicuous consumption.

Those fabulous fifties were also one of the best times ever to get finely- finished, superbly-made firearms that were still affordable for the average person. Revolvers made by Colt and Smith & Wesson in that era were as good as any ever made and, sadly, not likely to ever be made again on a mass-produced basis.
 
S&W Target in 1955- back when they were really made.

Colt's Python would have been new as well.

Ruger's Single Sixes,

1911s, Hi-Powers/Lugers and P38s, and you could buy them all through the mail.

Then cruise downtown in your 1957 Chevy.

My Dad was lucky to live back then.
 
1957 was the year I purchased a S&W K 38 Special and also got married. Still got the old 38 and the old girl.
 
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