I'll pay extra to get that feeling. I'm working on a project gun that will be pretty much what I can buy over the counter in a Kimber Classic Custom, but it will say "Colt" on it. By the time I'm done, I'll have over $900 into the gun, but the extra $$$ buys a sense of history that you can only get with a Colt. You can argue that after replacing most of the internals, the gun isn't a Colt, and hey, everyone's entitled to their opinion.