Re: [CR]Quilted Top Unicanitor

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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:30:46 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Quilted Top Unicanitor
References: <C102531FB711D411B5B90060B0A468760DB079@mail.bulgier.net>


Mark Bulgier wrote:
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> http://ebay.com/<blah>
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> Wes Gadd wrote:
> > If memory serves, this is a #75 Tour de France model,
> > current in the late 60's.
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> There was another quilted model, where the stitching wasn't in straight
> lines forming diamond shapes as on this one, but rather swoopy curved shapes
> like the decorative stitching on cowboy boots. I had one but stoopidly sold
> it with a bike in the 70s, and have been more-or-less looking for one ever
> since.

Actually the swoopy curved stiching Unicanitor is the Tour de France model I seem to remember. It came stock on some Italian-built Masi G.C.s from the early 1970s.

Chuck Schmidt SoPas, SoCal

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