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What 1911 does Don Johnson uses in his old series Nash Bridges?? Is it a Custom??
Nash Bridges 1911 ??
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BluesBear
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There has been a lot of discussion on this over the years.
Johnson/Bridges carrys a custom 1911 pattern pistol with a blued slide on a hard chromed frame. Some sources guestimate it's a .40 cal. (Johnson as Sonny Crockett was a big user of the old Bren Ten in Mami Vice)
Some say it's a 10mm.
The official Nash Bridges website, which seems to have vanished, stated that he carried a .38 Super.
It's common knowledge that many Hollywood Movies and TV shows use 9mm instead of .45 because of easier semi-auto functioning with blanks.
So who really knows? .45/.40/10mm/9mm/.38Super? Could have been any of them.
I haven't seen Don Johnson since before he last split up with Melanie. Or was it the time before that? If I see him again I intend to ask him for sure.
Johnson/Bridges carrys a custom 1911 pattern pistol with a blued slide on a hard chromed frame. Some sources guestimate it's a .40 cal. (Johnson as Sonny Crockett was a big user of the old Bren Ten in Mami Vice)
Some say it's a 10mm.
The official Nash Bridges website, which seems to have vanished, stated that he carried a .38 Super.
It's common knowledge that many Hollywood Movies and TV shows use 9mm instead of .45 because of easier semi-auto functioning with blanks.
So who really knows? .45/.40/10mm/9mm/.38Super? Could have been any of them.
I haven't seen Don Johnson since before he last split up with Melanie. Or was it the time before that? If I see him again I intend to ask him for sure.
Mute
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This info was from the Nash Bridges website when the show was still on the air:
Make: Colt
Model: 1911
Caliber: 38 super
Capacity: 10 + 1
Barrel: 4" Compensated Bar
510
Custom Modifications:
bo-mar sights--low profile
rounded, flattened and serrated slide ported
ramped and throated beavertail grip safety with
memory grove
ambidextrous extended speed safety
extended slide stop
extended--lightened trigger guard
spring guide, 2 vertical port compensator
extended and checked--spring housing
skelontonized hammer
beveled and enlarged mag chute
checkered front strap
frame and visible parts are hardstormed
external modifications and cosmetics designed by Jim
Zubiena internal modifications designed by Mac
McDonald firearm built by Mac's 45 shop - Seal Beach,
CA - 1.800.222.6276
FYI. Mac's 45 Shop is no longer in business AFAIK.
Make: Colt
Model: 1911
Caliber: 38 super
Capacity: 10 + 1
Barrel: 4" Compensated Bar
510
Custom Modifications:
bo-mar sights--low profile
rounded, flattened and serrated slide ported
ramped and throated beavertail grip safety with
memory grove
ambidextrous extended speed safety
extended slide stop
extended--lightened trigger guard
spring guide, 2 vertical port compensator
extended and checked--spring housing
skelontonized hammer
beveled and enlarged mag chute
checkered front strap
frame and visible parts are hardstormed
external modifications and cosmetics designed by Jim
Zubiena internal modifications designed by Mac
McDonald firearm built by Mac's 45 shop - Seal Beach,
CA - 1.800.222.6276
FYI. Mac's 45 Shop is no longer in business AFAIK.
pistolwhipped
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Wow ! You go Nash.
I love that show. I wish the Miami Vice and Nash Bridges series would come out on DVD. Heaven knows, every other dumb tv show has a DVD box set. Even Friends!!!! well, I bought a Colt Comp Commander in 45 which sort of mimicks the Nash Bridges gun. It is a stainless frame, with Videcki trigger, one port comp, on a 4 1/4 blued slide and stainless barrel. Pretty cool Lew Horton run. I thought the music was cool and Wendy Moniz was hot on the show. The San Francisco setting was also very nice. It is a beautiful city. Well, in one episode, Nash DID say he carried a "38." I like that style show. Don Johnson never really did form any other character which fits him as well a some sort of cop role. Some people's careers just naturally falls into a certain mold.
No, actually, Crocket carried a Sig 220 in a vertical SH only on the pilot episode (the one where he & Tubbs first meet).
It was when the first season started that he carried the Bren Ten in his trademark "Jackass" horizontal SH.
The BT stayed with him through the first & second seasons, and then at the start of the third season it got "blown up" along with that first muscle car he drove around in.
Both car & gun were replaced. His new gun was a .45acp S&W 645, which he carried for the rest of the series except the last season, when he switched to a 3rd Gen. 4506, which I believed was hard chromed.
BTW, the pilot show (w/ the 220) and the first episode of the second season (w/ much brandishing of the BT) are both available on video, IIRC.
HTH
It was when the first season started that he carried the Bren Ten in his trademark "Jackass" horizontal SH.
The BT stayed with him through the first & second seasons, and then at the start of the third season it got "blown up" along with that first muscle car he drove around in.
Both car & gun were replaced. His new gun was a .45acp S&W 645, which he carried for the rest of the series except the last season, when he switched to a 3rd Gen. 4506, which I believed was hard chromed.
BTW, the pilot show (w/ the 220) and the first episode of the second season (w/ much brandishing of the BT) are both available on video, IIRC.
HTH
joegerardi
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Actually, the Jackass rig came along later...
The first holster for the Bren Ten was a Ted Blocker. They still make it for the BT, actually. he wore it with the backplate upside down. Later, he moved to the Miami Classic, because the Blocker rig supposedly pinched him.
..Joe (Bren Ten owner.)
BTW: The car was blown up because it was a replica built on a Corvette frame, not a real Ferrari. Ferrari told them to stop using it, and gave them a Testa Rossa as a replacement. It was black, and they painted it white because the black didn't film too well.
The first holster for the Bren Ten was a Ted Blocker. They still make it for the BT, actually. he wore it with the backplate upside down. Later, he moved to the Miami Classic, because the Blocker rig supposedly pinched him.
..Joe (Bren Ten owner.)
BTW: The car was blown up because it was a replica built on a Corvette frame, not a real Ferrari. Ferrari told them to stop using it, and gave them a Testa Rossa as a replacement. It was black, and they painted it white because the black didn't film too well.
eddailey
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I know, but it was a replica of a 365 GTB Daytona Spider! I think I cried myself to sleep for a week!
Kahr carrier
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Boy Don Johnson has good taste in guns . I wonder if he kept any of the ones he used in the shows???
stans
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Unlikely, they are prop guns and modified, usually permanently, to fire blanks. The Bren Ten is on display at a Hard Rock Cafe somewhere. I read about it and the label on the display is reported to contain incorrect information about the gun.
joegerardi
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The Bren Ten wasn't really a Bren Ten at all...
It was the.45 model. There were no blanks at the time in 10mm, so the pistol was basically handmade by D&D to fire .45.
..Joe
It was the.45 model. There were no blanks at the time in 10mm, so the pistol was basically handmade by D&D to fire .45.
..Joe
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