The FrankenLeica began life as a 1954 double-stroke M3, just like mine, until David Lykes Keenan got his hands on it:
I purchased it in 2004 shortly after I became interested in photography again after a 30-year hiatus. I purchased it originally to fulfill a plan I had to recreate the kit I remember my grandfather had in the late 1960s. He let me use the camera, his collection of lenses, and the most curious accessory I had ever seen, a Visoflex.