Masi expert and all-around good guy Brian Baylis points out last July that-
"At some point the "MC" was replaced with the "SMC" which does stand for San Marcos, CA. I think maybe around 1983 when Masi moved into a new building in San Marcos."
Greg Fletcher Foothill Ranch, CA
On 9/19/02 8:19 AM, "Mark" <rena.cutrufelli@comcast.net> wrote:
> MC =Masi Carlsbad
>
> Tell me it ain't so.
>
> Mine says MC on the bottom bracket, Specifically...serial # MC54 D8328
> But...it is a 1983 Masi GC. Tesch, former listmember who worked for Masi, told
> me he built my frame in 1983 San Marcos.He asked questions, saw the pics,asked
> about the Masi engravings on the chrome fork crown,the fork being oval new
> continentals, and I presume other tippoffs. We never discussed the GC in the
> serial number and as a newbie I was much too dumb to think of it.Is there
> something amiss here?Could Tesch have built it? Is it from Carlsbad?>
> Mark (Breakaleggo) Cutrufelli
> Laurel,MD