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Congrats on the bass Steve, very nice.

Nice score Steve. I almost went for that one myself but the wife would certainly kill me. Great price too. They have been selling for around $1200.

Thanks Joey! Mike...couldn't pass it up for the price, and I thankfully have a one-member spending committee (ME!) so I didn't have to clear it with anyone else but the bank. I'll post pics once it arrives and after I change out the TRC and the guard.

Not that my wife doesn't support the cause. She picked out my 360/12 FG and told me I had to have. As for a new bass this year, I've ordered a TUR 4003 from M. Parks and a MBrn 4003 from my local music shop. I'm having a hard time sitting on my hands until they arrive. I'm starting to think a 660 would nice for the collection too. But then again I still want an AG 4001. Please post the pics when you get them and I will live vicariously through your eyes until I can get the funds for one.

Steve I have a photo of my 78 Midnight blue 4001 (even though it was not listed as an available color until several years later, like about 6) in the pictures of your Ric basses thread July 25. It is much darker than yours and that picture captures the color exactly as it is, but it has the original white gurad and TRC on it, it's all original. I'd like to get an Azureglo, yours looks like a real one, I think most of the basses that are passed off as Azureglo are really midnight blue.

Jared, the weapon you mentioned is a M-203 launcher, it attaches to the lower receiver of the M16/M4 series rifles.

Bob,
Nice Basses!!! You're right, that does look darker than mine, I will know for sure when I get it in my hands, but there is a distinct difference between AG and MB. Since you noted that it wasn't available in 1978, maybe yours is a dark AG? I would best describe the AG as more of an "electric blue". I had an 82 4001S that I THOUGHT was AG, but it was a Midnight Blue as well. I will post pics once it gets here! Expecting it on Tuesday!

wasn't the M203 for 37mm rounds?

come to think of it-You're right. I'm thinking of the civi version (have one) but the model was not 209...

What the heck was I thinking about?

She' so fine my 209...

Steve,I was wondering if maybe they were fooling around with shades back then and came up with midnight blue as a result of experimentation with Azureglo, I don't know, but I had a brand new 2002 Mid night Blue 4003 (waa!) for a short time and the colors were identical, when I first went back to that thread yesterday I thought it was my new one until I read the description above it. The Azureglos I have seen are much lighter and more pastel looking. I haven't seen many Azureglos at all. I haven't seen one in person since the 70's.

Mine was a brilliant medium blue, one of the prettiest colors on a 4003 that there ever was. Midnight blue comes close, I probably should have tried harder for that 4003/5 MB on eBay last Spring, but alas, only one purchase a year!

Midnight and Azure have never met. Midnight is a semi-translucent material with metallic-like content. Azureglo was a solid pastel color, actually matched to the original Volkswagen blue, whatever they called it.

Jared,
As far as I know there isn't a 37mm round in the Army, now the 30mm DPU round is quite popular, but not so much by the "axis of evil" tank community though.The 30mm DPU eats tanks and APC's. The M203 replaced the M79, which like the 203 are both 40mm single shot weapons.

It's amazing how many threads around here turn to the subject of armaments.

One must be learned on the subject of RIC protection methods.....