it would have made no economic sense to export them.
furthermore, there wasn't a name/face/personality
attached to them so there'd have been no reason to
assume they were any different from italian models
since the goal was to produce "them" stateside. in
other words, back then no one ever looked at the serial
numbers or the silly "town" code to disern if they
had "one of the good ones"...
e-RICHIE
chester, ct
port;and, or
Tom Donahue asked:
"I do, however, have a question about the desirability of CaliMasis in the rest of the world: Do they hold the same relative value as their Italian counterparts? In other words, if the '73 and '74 Italian Masis had a relative value of 100+x, would a comparable CaliMasi have that same relative value in Italy, in Japan? "
As far as I know, the Calimasis were never sold outside of the US, so it would surprise me that anybody in Italy would even know of the existence of the California bikes. Does anybody else know what geographical limitations were imposedby the license agreement? Were Canada, Mexico and Japan included?
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Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ