[CR]Bianchi Specialissimo identification, please

(Example: Component Manufacturers)

Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:50:53 -0500
From: Tom Hayes <hayesbikes@gmail.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Bianchi Specialissimo identification, please

For more than a year, I have a been meaning to take pictures and post them so that members could be help me identify a frame and fork for a friend who has this particular Bianchi hanging in his shop. I finally took some pictures today and posted them at the following:

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/hayesbikes/bianchi/

The serial number around the seatcollar reads: 1(maybe a "7")6544. It has Campagnolo drop-outs with eyelets on both front and rear; an oil-grease port in the middle of headtube.

Could any members please tell me the approximate the year of its manufacture(65?)? Whether the chromed front fork would have been original? (Would there also be a serial number to correspond to the other stamped on the fork?) A metal headbadge.

Thank you.

Tom Hayes
Chagrin Falls, Ohio USA