[CR]re: ebay PX-10

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot:PX-10LE)

From: "C. Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 10:34:30 -0700
Subject: [CR]re: ebay PX-10

Robert Broderick wrote:

I am not in the habit of outing eBay auctions to this list, but in this particular instance I simply could not resist as this one is simply too good on too many levels. For all you Peugeot pundits and confirmed Francophiles:

eBay auction number 7240253678

Yes indeed, a vintage 1974 PX-10E whose seller purports it to have never

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Actually, it looks like what it's described to be...right down to a set of Dubois lugs that appear to have been taken straight out of the box, brazed onto the tubes in question, and painted, with nary a file or even a little sandpaper to sully their charming shorelines.

I'll concede that the pristine graphics and paint and parts are kinda cool...but a level of workmanship that could easily be exceeded by a 6th grade shop class seems worth discussing.

I'd really like to know how it happened that the guys at Peugeot thought it was ok to do that. If I didn't know better, I'd swear it was an ironic comment on any and all finished lugs... it's as if they were saying "check it out. No workmanship *at all* and we can still sell the thing!"

To each their own...but really. I mean, c'mon. The lugs on that frame are disgraceful. And, in that period, all the PX-10s looked like that. How could any self-respecting CR member stand to look at them, let alone own them?

Charles Andrews SoCal

"The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them."

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