> Can anyone name any other famous marque that has the graphics hand
> painted on their bikes instead of decals?
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, Southern California
Is Colin Laing famous enough. Maybe not. Regardless, it had a shield decal on the seat tube then was block lettered and outlined Colin Laing on the down tube. The head tube was a handpainted CL (old English script). This was 1980.
Craig Montgomery, Tucson