Posted on 01/03/2014 11:30:56 AM PST by deoetdoctrinae
The winning bidder will also receive historic photos and documentation of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's last stand, when the partners in life and crime were ambushed by law enforcement officers in Louisiana.
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Dead clyde.
Dead Bonnie
Proof they didn't escape and go off to live in Mexico like so many other outlaws were said to have done after they were "dead".
Years ago, I had a man tell me that Bonnie gained 14 pounds from all the lead in her. I'm a little skeptical of it.
When she was shot she had a half eaten sandwich and a pistol in her lap.
Have to wonder if that was a movie prop gun. Would have to be a stout chick to hoist a BAR up offhand like that.
Sweet, looks like a model 1902 Sporting Automatic pistol, would like to see the markings and serial number - looks like first variation, Flayderman’s 5B-220. Nice gun for any collection.
Had to have been something like that. The actress fired it in that shot. I’m guessing that they used as a light a load as possible.
But then the real Bonnie Parker was diminutive and she used a BAR during one of the shootouts.
***Guns that old that have been neglected can be ruined. ***
I bought a nice pre-WWII Czech .32 pistol a few years ago. It was perfect outside and had only been fired once when bought new back in the 1930s.
The barrel was ruined as corrosive ammo was used and the gun never cleaned.
I almost lost a barrel on my brand new Browning Hi-Power when I fired it with surplus Nazi ammo I bought back in 1968.
Luckily I realized the bore was RUSTED! BAD! from that one shooting session and cleaned it. It still had small pits from the ammo. I felt sick!
Years ago I bought an almost perfect 03-A3. The bore was almost perfect but you could barely make out pitting as it obviously had been fired with corrosive ammo and probably cleaned a few days later. It was still super accurate.
years ago, the car they were shot in, was being toured around the country. this was probably late 70’s., but I suppose its been rolled out numerous times.
BAR! Back about 46 years ago, when the movie Bonnie And Clyde was on the screens, an article in a magazine said that Clyde broke into a National Guard armory and stole several BARs. He stole magazines and had them brazed together to give him more powerful firepower than a Thompson.
Ever notice how the character D W Jones (played as C W Moss in 1968) was not in the latest B&C movie?
“Dirt!”
“Dirt?”
“Dirt in the fuel line! Just blowed it away!”
Oh, Clyde took the low road
And I took the low road
And we'll be in Hades forever
And me and my true love will never kill again
After eatin' lead in the bonnie braes of Loos-iana
Leni
...reckon Bonnie was.
have you ever been to whiskey pete’s at state line nev. it was there for several years
Outside a casino in Nevada, I think. More like Reno and not Las Vegas.
I though it was a British headline and wondered who Bonnie was.
Oh yes!
My dad, who went on the beach at D-Day+3, told me it amazed him that every time he needed a replacement GI that it was the smallest guy in the squad that wanted to carry their BAR. The little guy syndrome? He never knew of course, but it always mystified him. Never failed how they wanted to most fire power they could carry.
That reminded me of one of those old Blood on the Highway films from driver’s-ed class back in high school.
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