Hi Jim,
Your guess of 78 would seem correct, I have a sheet from 75 describing the serial number system.
I put up a scan at
http://www.mindspring.com/
Sounds like a fun project
Steve Birmingham Lowell, Ma
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:26:13 -0800 From: "Jim Hultman" <italianthread@cox.net> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: [CR] Retro Raleighs Web Site Info? Need 'Pro' Transfers Also; 51cm Ron Cooper Message-ID: <000b01c2ddc4$8b2ce920$6401a8c0@home> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="Windows-1252" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: list Message: 10
Gosh, I really miss Ray Chong's 'Retro Raleighs' web site! I have to thank
Mark Bulgier for hosting the catalogs from it at:
http://bulgier.net/
I received this Pro as a frameset yesterday, and I'm currently somewhere between big grin & outright gloat. I've been looking for one of these in my 23.5" (at a reasonable price) for a very long time. This frameset was only $150 because it is missing the downtube & toptube transfers. Yet it is in very nice, unscratched condition. Speaking of fancy paint jobs, there is something about the appearance a 'Blue Mink' Raleigh Pro that does it for me!
I don't really know what year I've got here; it has what I'd call a semi-wrap seat-lug, not a Brampton style, so I've guessed 1978. But further CR archive searching seems to indicate that the 'Team Pro' frameset had this seatlug as early as 1975. As far as I know, the only difference between 'Team Pro' & 'Pro' at this pre-753 vintage was in the components, paint & seat-lug.
The serial # is: WM8000937. I'd sure appreciate any help on identifying it you can give me. Also, if anyone has transfers (once I know the year) I'd like to buy! I can e-mail pics, of course.
Also; I've come across a 51cm Ron Cooper, but can't justify buying it right now. The seller (whom I don't know) wants $350 obo. It includes the old Shimano 600 group, excepting a set of NR brake calipers. No wheels, no brake pads. I have 2 pics to e-mail. Red w white lettering. I haven't seen it in person, but it looks unrusted & actually pretty nice!
Jim Hultman Santa Barbara (Where it was supposed to rain, but is sunny, & I have a document to deliver downtown which I can jam into my jersey).
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