1911-A1 INTERARMS SILVERCUP

[polecat]

I inherited this gun from my younger brother who passed away too young back in 2005. He loved his guns and had a small collection of unusual pieces like this one. Its a 1911-A1 USGI build in 45ACP. The gun has an interesting history from what I can gather. After WWII the US sold USGI 1911’s to foreign governments that were never used. In the 60's-70's Interarms bought up the unused stock and tried to import them back into the US. They were not permitted to re-import the frames (most were Remington Rand guns) so they stripped the parts and had them fitted to American made frames back in Alexandria VA. From what I can gather the frames were supplied by Essex Arms. This gun is a good shooter that I  keep in my jeep “just in case”. As long as you keep it clean ..it runs great and shoots to point of aim. Not bad for a gun with most of the parts over 60 years old! Mods made include new barrel, new recoil spring, new commander style hammer, new barrel bushing, smoothed out the trigger bar, polished the feed ramp, polished internals and had the gun professionally Cerakoted in bronze and black.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

 

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Edited August 27, 2014 by polecat

[Ted S.]

The cerakoting and new grips really does something to that 1911. Looks great, that would be an awesome open carry piece.

[polecat]

 

 

The cerakoting and new grips really does something to that 1911. Looks great, that would be an awesome open carry piece.

thank you sir!

[McGarrett]

Nice looking 1911 and some interesting history to go with it.