That, the first bikes being badged La Freccia, corresponds to the Colnago book by Sergio Meda.
And speaking of holy grails: according to the book the first foreign purchaser, "let's say it was 1960" Meda writes, was purchased by a university professor from Berkeley. He was over 6 feet tall, and "Colnago remembers him not so much because he was the first but because he took size thirteen shoes." Who might that have been?
Angel Garcia Verona, Italy
snip:
Just to clarify my earlier post on the subject, I am told (I have not
verified myself) that the original colnago road and track bikes in the
50s were badged "la Freccia" (the arrow)...
Charles Andrews
Los Angeles