Re: [CR]Zeus and Campy: The Rumor

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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 07:47:48 -0700
To: "Mitch Harris" <mitch.harris@gmail.com>, "brad stockwell" <brdstockwell@yahoo.com>
From: "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Zeus and Campy: The Rumor
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At 9:58 PM -0600 10/4/07, Mitch Harris wrote:
>Ok, so the Campagnolo connection is not real based on subsequent posts
>in this thread. But should the "100%-Spanish-stem-to-stern
>orientation of Zeus" still be attributed to Franco nationalism? Holy
>Homage to Catalonia, Batman.

Even after World War II, Spain was a very, very poor country. Their currency was not worth much. That made importing anything very expensive. With labor costs being low, it made economic sense to make things in-country.

How much things have changed...

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