http://www.hipowersandhandguns.com/Critical+Look+at+Star+Model+BM.htm
$125 with 2 mags in the original box.
Heavy Spanish iron, but very sweet in the hand.
$200 - $250 on Gunbroker these days. Still....beats the heck out of a Hi-Point for comparable dough!
Parts may not be a problem, with 3D copiers. I saw somewhere recently, there was a place that had parts for it. Used as a home protection piece, it shouldn’t be a problem. You aren’t going to fire it daily at the range or plinking in the field to ware it down.
You want a collector item buy a good colt and standby to pay. If pony’s cock your trigger buy colt snake guns. You want a shooter buy a plain Jane Rock Island and trick it out. Worst business decision by colt was stopping production on the snakes. Anaconda, python, diamond back, etc. I have a good friend with a stable full of pony’s. The anacondas were a couple a grand a piece. Sweet but damn, just damn. The old CMP program sent another friend of mine a M1 garand by winchester. I want it to go with my Springfield. I won’t print what he told me when I tried to buy it.