I wish I could have purchased a 1977 Mercier 300 Team Issue Reynolds 753. "COOP" Pink, of course. Grant Handley brought it back from France and gave me first wack at it. The Campy brake posts were brazed into the fork crown and the rear brake bridge, i.e. custom Peugeots with the brazed on MAFAC posts. It even had the team members name painted on the top tube. I get misty just thinkin' bout it. It was just too much for my budget at the time-kids had to eat.
The one I wish I kept - a 1970something San Rensho track bike. It was metallic green, kinda like Schwinn Sting Ray green. I bought it from my boss at the bike shop when I was a sophmore in high school. He bought it new in New York City and it hung on the shop wall for years. He raced it twice at the Lehigh County Velodrome before acquiring a nymphomaniac girlfriend. I sold it because I wasn't using it. What an IDIOT!!! Why can't I have that philosophy with all the other junk laying around?! I remember how gorgeous that Superbe Pro track group was.
WOW, that was painful.
Don Andersen
(Sobbing in Maryland)