OK guys, let’s show those vintage AR’s and clones thereof.
This is my one safe queen…
Colt SP-1 manufactured the first full year of production, 1964.
It came with the original Colt 3X scope.
More “retro inspired” than a clone…
The XM177, One of my all time favorite carbines…
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I have a soft spot for those as well.
My retro blaster. Fun to shoot, quick handling rifle.
Nice.
Sweet jeebus Templar! If you’re gonna have a safe queen, it ought to be capable of ruling the kingdom.
Cheers
1979
(scope NOT retro/’79)
I like the price tag.
The rate of inflation from 1966 to 2010 is 581.41%
If you take $189.50 in 1966 $$$ and multiply it by 5.8141, the sum is $1101.77 in 2010 $$$… The price of a Colt AR really has not changed much in the last 40 + years…
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I always love looking at retro ads for pretty much any consumer products but especially for firearms! Oh how time’s have changed, to think Colt use to market these to the “hunter, camper, or collector”.
Reminds me of when I was a kid growing up in the 80’s looking at through my dad’s gun rags at the old HK ads and the like…then came Bush Sr.'s '89 ban. 
My ‘retro’ slash ‘Israeli’ build… I sold it to a coworker but working on getting it back.
Parts:
Lower finished:
Completed (ADCO did the barrel work for me, including pinning the FSB):
Love the IDF and USAF guns. They’ve been kicking around so long and parts keep getting upgraded that there’s no telling what kind of configuration you’ll run into.
It ran great, too… 1500 rounds in an 8 hour period with minimal cleaning, just more lube.
I sold it because of my divorce… women.
Been there too.
I believe they were around $450 in 1984. But ammo in real terms now, even after the Obama runup, is cheaper…as are good mags.
I’d love to have a 20" A1 upper with a 1/7 or 1/8 twist .750" or .625" profile. Those original handguards were quite comfortable.
.223 ammo was around $300/m in 1984. In 1984 IIRC a AK (Maadi) was $1300 or so, and a Galil was $1700. Cheapest ammo was $100/m for AK around 1984-1990, and .223 was $170/m around 1997 until 2001.