Re: [CR]Atala frame dating....help please if you can serial # provided

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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:25:12 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Atala frame dating....help please if you can serial # provided
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David Gates wrote:
> I have an Atala that I am unable to determine the serial number and
> match it up with a date code, or what the numbers are or mean
> concerning model. Could any of you Atala people help me. This bike
> has chrome lugsand the serial number is on the upper right of the
> seat stay. The number is # 69A1272.

Atala serial numbers use the first two digits to indicate the year of manufacture, so yours was built in 1969. Sounds like a nice bike!

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA