what is the rarest gun?

[TequilaMockingbird]

Re: Lapco, Colin and his Markers...

Originally posted by Mr.Orange

The Grey Spirit is a bore drop version of the Ghost. I made 500 of them from 1990 to 1995. The last 60 were custom guns, made to order, between 1993 and 1995.

Wow, even Colin's memory is fuzzy. I've had Grey Spirit #0518 since early '92.

Lapco numbers get muddled towards the end, going mostly on an "on demand" basis. The Force Recons were mostly made of leftover Spirit parts, and I think they are in the same # sequence (though not all have #s, and some are really odd colors, like teal). There's also a few special order colors in the sequence, that were stamped "The Brown Spirit", "The Green Spirit", etc.(Similarly there are "Purple Ghosts" and "Black Ghosts".)
I think we established earlier that the Daystar was the rarest of all Lapcos, at only 15, though they are basically just champagne-colored Spirits.

[freek133]

What about the original airtech industry "Image" matrices? Im not sure they are anywhere near the rarest of the guns being discussed, but hey, for a late nineties gun it sure is hard to come by.

[Muzikman]

Originally posted by LoveMyMagMoreThanYou


I didn't think that these made it into production either, as I was on the waiting list when they died.

Well, I guess in a sense you can say they never made it into a full productions. There were 5 out there as prototypes and the rumor has it that there were enough parts for the frist 25 to be built...they were just never put together. The rumor also has it that someone bought the parts, plans and patent on this gun. Would be interesting if these rumored parts would ever surface. I have personaly seen two of these guns in person and had the chance to buy one *bangs head off wall* Oh well, such is life.

[BradAGD]

Doesn't Smart Farts (oops, did I say that?) own the patent? When I asked Mary Ellen with PVI about it, she told me that them and SP shared the patent and the agreement was for 2 years, then they would each produce their own stuff...that's the way I heard it.

They had some cool features too. The on gun chrono was way cool.

[LoveMyMagMoreThanYou]

Originally posted by BradAGD
They had some cool features too. The on gun chrono was way cool.

I know! That's why I was on the waiting list. Wish I could have gotten one.

[Benfica4ever]

one of a kind