Freek Faro tantalized you yesterday with a list of great catalogs he scanned and sent to me - well they are now up on the site. Only the '76 Holdsworth catalog has gotten the HTML treatment so far, but the rest are available for viewing in the crude file-list format you all have come to expect from the lazy drag-and-drop webmaster at bulgier.net
http://bulgier.net/
What a haul, eh? Thanks again Freek!!
I do scan some stuff myself now and then, and here's a couple of fresh ones:
=> Reynolds Tubing catalog, possibly 1978 (after the TI buyout of '77
anyway). Has 753, in metric only of course, and 531 SL, along with the
regular 531. I also scanned a 753 Technical Data Sheet from about the
same era, and put it in the same folder:
http://bulgier.net/
=> Exxon Graftek catalog, 1977. The first commercially available
carbon-composite frame that I know of. The catalog contains fairly
standard ridiculous techno-hype, good for a laugh perhaps:
http://bulgier.net/
These frames were supposedly ridden by many of America's top amateurs for a time, including John Howard, Wayne Stetina, and Dale Stetina, racking up an impressive season in '76. I say supposedly because I don't know if those name riders actually rode Grafteks or were paid to say they did. They broke at the seatstay - seat lug attach point (I've seen this), and had tubes pull out of lugs I hear. Didn't stop me from buying one recently though, which I am in the process of building up with period stupidlight components.
-Mark Bulgier
Seattle WA USA