You really have no clue do you? The ColtZ40 is/was a hand shake deal between CZ and Colt industries for CZ to make a .40 cal for Colt. Colt asked for 3 things, First they asked CZ to make the Frame in the style of the 1911, and to make a couple minor internal changes, this CZ agreed to. The first batch of approx 850 ColtZ40 pistols were sent to Colt. unfortunately Colt couldn't continue the agreement because they were in financial trouble again and couldn't pay. Here's where the 850 models gets musky, Apparently Colt more or less returned all the pistols to CZ-USA except for 50, (This bit is my guess as to why the numbers differ, which I'm guessing Colt had already been working on, {right about this time Colt was working on plans for a personalized weapon that had a magnetic lock and the pistol would not fire if the person trying to shot it, wasn't wearing the matching magnetic ring, It was one of the first of many ideas to make weapons that could only be used by the person it was given to, never worked out,} trying to do what ever they had intended to do with the pistols.) So again approx 800 ColtZ40's were returned to CZ as I said, (no one seems to agree on whether it was 800 or 850 pistols).
As I stated CZUB had stopped the production on the ColtZ40 and had the slide that had been already roll marked with the ColtZ40 logo removed and then re-rolled with the new designation of CZ 40B. The proof here is 2 fold, First off the ColtZ40 and the CZ 40B have the exact same frames, which would NOT have happened unless they were in fact the same design, since for all intents and purposes CZ has ALWAYS used a Browning Clone frame for their pistols, and when they ran out of frames and slides for the CZ B they went back to their Browning clone frame design and designated it the CZ 40 P. Second if you hold a CZ 40 B in the light you can see an indentation where CZ had the ColtZ40 name removed and the new CZ 40 B name stamped in it's place.
The entire story can be found on both the Yuku Forum hosting service under the heading of czechfirearms.com I believe the old forum was called. (Actually I took another 30 seconds and looked up the name of the YUKU based forum, here's the link:
http://czechpistols82792.yuku.com/topic/18002/CZ40B-quality-vs-price#.UgwIW-3D8VA)And also on the
www.CZFirearms.us Board. it's also on the web in general so you do your homework and look it up and you will see you are so wrong it's pathic. and as for prices here a few links if you had bothered to look, Granted this one is from 2000 but prices haven't doubled on that pistol since then.
http://www.gunsamerica.com/976806492/CZ_40B.htmThis one is from 2007 and still no change in price:
http://www.gunsamerica.com/977316574/CZ_40B_New_40S_.htmI took a second and looked up the link on
www.czfirearms.us referencing the story regarding the history of the ColtZ40 and the CZ 40 B, and this is the link and I would like to thank CZfirearms.us for the link:
http://www.czfirearms.us/index.php?PHPSESSID=f1484f9b8e57e2f0200c90390eefc154&topic=5466.0.
Ok, back to links about what the pistol would generally sell for this one is 3 years old:
http://www.gunauction.com/Search/DisplayItem.cfm?ItemNum=9836653Here is another one from 2010:http://www.gunauction.com/Search/DisplayItem.cfm?ItemNum=9836653
Here is another from 2010:
http://www.gunauction.com/Search/DisplayItem.cfm?ItemNum=98366532011:
http://www.gunsamerica.com/988424990/CZ40B.htmOk here's one from this year :http://www.gunlistings.org/ohio-gun-classifieds/youngstown/pistols/155388/cz_40b
And another one:
http://www.gunlistings.org/tennessee-gun-classifieds/chattanooga/pistols/26574/cz---40bHere one that is supposedly MINT which yours is not as you said:
http://www.armslist.com/posts/1774889/gainesville-florida-handguns-for-sale--mint-cz-40b-rare- and it comes with extra stuff, (BTW that lead in is wrong, it says Mint, But he also said it had about 30 rounds fired so it's not "Mint" but like new in box)
Here is a link to the subject on this forum and the person "Ol Tex" has forgotten more about pistols and competition than you you will ever know. He has won many, many competition over the years and read the entire post start to finish and it's from August of 2012. You call him a lier and you will make yourself the laughing stock of any board this ever gets posted on. For that matter the same goes for Otto n Sure the Admin on czfirearms.us, or Angus from CZCustom.com, him you can call if you want, and he knows a very great deal about CZ's or every kind.
Last, so you got your asking price, well good for you. I believe I mentioned in one or both the previuos posts here that anything at all is worth exactely what someone is willing to pay for it. If they failed to do their homework regarding that pistol then that's their problem. And no I have no intention of banning you, you are a funny guy, and you make me glad I run this forum. Now if you are rude to others here, then that's a different matter.
And I doubt you are old enough to even know when, where and how the Ghost Warriors and the Shadow Warriors name came into being. And I doubt you could even find anyone that would tell you.
Have a nice life and you know nothing of being humble.
I answered all your questions, gave you links to check, now, you don't
have to apologize for being rude and wrong but it might make you a man. Oh and just in case you missed it the first 2 times I said it. I have All 3 of the .40's from that time, The ColtZ40, the CZ 40B, and the CZ 40 P, and I have a CZ 40 Pre-B model, and an entire library on Czech Pistols all you got is ass and hat. And last time I checked I own an entire collection of CZ's from pre WWII up to the CZ 75. Including the CZ 75 Pre-B Short rail. Well not complete I'm missing 2 the Singer and the Praga but how knows maybe I'll get lucky and find them to complete the collection.
GW
Sorry nearly forgot to suggest you pick up a Blue Book on firearms prices. There are about 5 different ones I think, and even the NRA has one out.