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Hear yea, hear yea, AutoMag Heaven is now in
session!
A wonderful potpourri is being assembled here for your education and
enjoyment.
I wish to apologize to all you AutoMag aficionados for allowing the
website to
stagnate low these 2 months, while I was off to Japan increasing my
collection
of toy guns. Wow!
1st on the agenda allow me to tout the work of our good friend Lee
Jurras. He
is now in the throws of producing 1/3 scale AutoMag stuff. His first
release
can be seen in photos 1, 2, and 3.
Photo 1 - 1/3 scale front side of grips and 1/3 scale snap ring tool
with
Mandrel.
Photo 2 - 1/3 scale back side of grips showing relief cuts and again
the 1/3
scale snap ring tool and mandrel.
Photo 3 - This shows a set of prototypical grips and a snap ring tool
with
mandrel. Note Lee's 1/3 set of grips and snap ring tool with
mandrel.
Lee tells me that he will produce only 5 sets of grips and snap ring
tools with
mandrels. He will only sell the complete ensemble, for
$200. Let me
know your poison and I will pass it along to Lee.
Now let's continue. We'll talk about how difficult it is to
determine
when a particular gun was produced by looking at the serial number!
My very good friend Larry Grossman was kind enough to give me the total
serial
number run for Pasadena production.
The first 100 numbers were Harry Sanford's to do with as he
pleased.
The first numbered gun Harry gave to an investor was serial number
A00011. I'll tell that story in my upcoming book; however, the
production
date was 10/20/71.
The second serial number given was the number A00025 gun, which was
given to
his senior vice president Gerry Ognibene. That production date
was
7/26/71, two weeks before AutoMag was sold to the public.
Our third and last gun was the 42nd gun produced with serial number
A00132. This could be the earliest known regular production
Pasadena,
which was produced 8/3/71. So let's sum it up. The 11 gun
was
produced in October 1971, the 25 gun in July 1971, and the 132 gun in
August
1971. The 44 gun in my collection was produced on the same date
as the 25
Ognibene gun. Fascinating!
Let's move along to AutoMag cartridge die sets. My 15 or so set
collection will appear sometime in the future. I've got so much
to show
and tell; I don't really know where to begin!
The next photo is a two die set of "25 caliber Lomont LMP".
This was the regular 2 piece set that Kent Lomont sold. He
however
started with the 25 caliber Lomont AutoMag XP sets used by him to
produce 25
caliber ammunition for testing and later, sale. One of these rare
sets
now appears in the next photo. Notice that it is a 3 piece die
set.
Well, that's all there is folks! I truly hope you all
appreciate the
hard work that that goes into setting up these website presentations
and
primers that I do. In the past, I've asked questions with only a
couple
of responses. Are the rest of you so timid, or afraid that we
might see
one of you favorite pieces? It distresses me how secretive and
jealous
most of you guys seem to be.
One of the finest AutoMag collections out there is owned by Mr. Bruce
Stark. Those that have spoken with him find Bruce to be a wealth
of
AutoMag information; and, he's willing to share his knowledge with you.
I need to know about those rare and unique pieces that still exist in
someone's
collection. My upcoming treatise about AutoMag can never be
complete,
especially if I don't know what still exists. I don't have to own
it in
order to put it into my book!
Oh well, Life goes on.
Signing off, I remain your servant.
Bert
