Re: [CR]ebay outing: amusing faux colnago

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From: <d.kennard@adelphia.net>
To: <chasds@mindspring.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]ebay outing: amusing faux colnago
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 21:13:43 -0400


I believe it's a mid '70s Torpado, or (more likely) an ItalVega SuperLight or SuperSpeciale.

(I just learned that the later SuperSpeciale & SuperLight models used the same frame)

Someone wanted it to be a Colnago...

Duane Kennard Los Angeles, USA
>
> From: chasds@mindspring.com
> Date: 2004/04/08 Thu PM 09:05:24 EDT
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]ebay outing: amusing faux colnago
>
> As I recall, about a year ago, this seller tried to sell
> some no-name british frame as a Colnago...and failed..
> I hope.
>
> He's at it again, this time with a frame that, as far as I can
> tell, is clearly not a Colnago (although the fork might be..hard
> to tell, and with no pics of the lug tangs I can't see the cutouts)..
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah> eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=56197&item=3671342648&rd=1
>
> ok, maybe it's a Colnago, but certainly not from 1974, and
> not with the usual Prugnat lugs that Colnago used throughout
> the 70s..
>
> the aftermarket drilled out rear-drop-outs are a nice--if slightly
> alarming--touch.
>
> I hate it when people do this. Gives ebay a bad name...<g>
>
> Charles "morally upright...sometimes" Andrews
> soCal
>
> (I really should be working)