Mr. Hackathorn provides a pretty decent history on Colt 1911 pistols in this video. The info will be old news to some folks here on the forum, but it's still pretty good stuff. He also discusses and shoots Colt's new 1911 Classic model which is a nice gun.
I agree with the point Ken makes about how Colt fails to adjust the extractors on their production guns toward the end of the video. Such an easy problem to fix, yet it goes unaddressed. Still a nice new traditional model from Colt though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv94MbQXDkc