In a message dated 9/14/03 1:38:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time, loco@nildram.co.uk writes:
> Can anyone help me shed some light on a track frame I've had in my
> possession since 1976. It's a "Jacques Anquetil" with the frame no
> JA1774 stamped on the bottom bracket and the word "Jacques" positioned
> on one side of the down tube and "Anquetil" on the other. I can find no
> reference to these frames on the web or any where else for that matter
> and wondered if anyone out there could help.
>
I have seen a few Anquetil frames, but not recently. There was a shop in the
Marina district of San Francisco that imported them in the 1960s. The only
ones I saw were well made, professional quality framesets of 531. Anquetil is one
of the few 5 times TDF winners, so it would make sense that he would have
frames built with his name on them, during or after his active career. I never
saw large numbers of them and I would guess they were not common, even in
France. A nice track bike is a special rarity. What size and color is it? Have you
posted pictures anywhere? A guess from looking at the serial number is that it
was made in 1974. How did you come by the frame?
Stevan Thomas
Alameda, CA