Colt Double Eagle! anybody else think it’s COOL?

[CajunBass]

really!!! stuff to store in the back of my head!

Yes sir. Totally off topic, but OLD pickups had the gas tank mounted inside the cab. The filler neck was on the outside of the main cab, just behind the drivers door (if one was ever on the other side, I never saw it) and stuck far enough out to catch the cap on a "drink bottle" and pop it right off. Of course no country boy would be seen without a "church key" on his key-ring anyway but that was reserved for a particular type of beverage usually.

 

[tommy.duncan]

Colt did make some of the MKII DEs in 10mm.

I remember seeing them when I was younger and a lot poorer. I will find one again and add it to the collection.

 

[Mark_Mark]

I remember seeing them when I was younger and a lot poorer. I will find one again and add it to the collection.

I’m glade we are not poor anymore, younger might be nice tho… Couple of odd guns on my list that was my childhood dream gun.

Mauser C-96
P-38
Tec-9
Mac 10 (Cobray version is good too)
Calico

 

[tommy.duncan]

I’m glade we are not poor anymore, younger might be nice tho… Couple of odd guns on my list that was my childhood dream gun.

I remember not liking the way this thing shot in 45acp, but, a 10mm specimen would round out the collection.
or, it could be a great shooter!!

 

[Vern Humphrey]

I’d pay $300 maybe. It was a POS when it came out and now it’s a funky cool retro nostalgic POS.

Back in the day, it was called the "Double Turkey."

 

[Mark_Mark]

Back in the day, it was called the "Double Turkey."

if Colt Marketing was good… try “Double Wild Turkey”

I should have been a marketing man!

 

[Tallball]

I still drive my 1970 F100. Yes, the gas tank is inside the cab behind the front seat.

If you open the door, one of the parts having to do with the hinges is a sturdier place to open a bottle, IIRC.

 

[Riomouse911]

Cool looking? Yes…sorta. To me it looks like a S&W 645 got together with a 1911 and had goofy offspring.

Cool functioning? No.

Colt had a couple of genuine lemons of that era, the Double Eagle and the Colt 2000, both of which were mentioned earlier. These two Colt guns were the AMC Gremlin/Pacers of the Colt tribe.

Y'all are probably too young to remember it, but that's what the gas cap on a pickup truck was for.

Or the wide opening in the center seatbelt latch of a 1974 Chevy Impala… or so I was told.

Stay safe.

 

[Mark_Mark]

Cool looking? Yes…sorta. To me it looks like a S&W 645 got together with a 1911 and had goofy offspring.

Cool functioning? No.

Colt had a couple of genuine lemons of that era, the Double Eagle and the Colt 2000, bith of which were mentioned earlier. These two Colt guns were the AMC Gremlin/Pacers of the Colt tribe.



Or the wide opening in the center seatbelt latch of a 1974 Chevy Impala… or so I was told.

Stay safe.

Colt Double Eagle is too delicate to compare to a Gremlin. The whole trigger system relying on the S shape spring held behind the grip! lol

I think a Delorean would be a more fare comparison. Expensive and nobody asked for.

 

[Riomouse911]

Colt Double Eagle is too delicate to compare to a Gremlin. The whole trigger system relying on the S shape spring held behind the grip! lol

I think a Delorean would be a more fare comparison. Expensive and nobody asked for.

And in stainless, to boot..

Stay safe.

 

[Gladius]

I remember seeing the Double Eagle "in the wild", as one might say. It was interesting, until I tried the DA trigger... it wasn't particularly heavy, but it did pinch me. Ouch!