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."
--Galileo Galilei