If you had bought ruger #1s and Old Model Blackhawks as well as series 70 Colt 1911s and left them unfired, theyde be worth 2-3 times their original value now.
Try and buy a nice Ruger #1 from the 70s or 80s for less than a grand now NIB. Not to mention an original Bren Ten or the left handed randall 1911.
The Bren Ten was made in Huntington Beach Calif a buddy of mine worked there we would take the new ones over to the old police range and test fire them. some of them would go fully auto on ya kinda crazy you would test them with three rounds first then a full clip FYI Bren tens were a pile of crap Sonny Croket like them