[CR]Fuji America on ebay

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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:04:50 -0400
From: "Tim Fricker" <tymncycle@gmail.com>
To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]Fuji America on ebay

Has anyone seen this?

http://ebay.com/<blah>

It looks like it's in pretty nice shape, and I was always fond of the old Fujis, especially the Finest and America models. One question though... are the crankset and rear derailleur right for the America, in 76? That appears to be a VX derailleur, and I'm not sure when that was introduced. And I know it was on the 77 S-10S, as I owned one of those, so it strikes me as odd that it would be on an America, a much pricier model. Same goes for the crankset... from the picture, that looks like the swaged Maxy, not the forged Mighty Tour, but maybe it's just the photo. Again, seems to me the America would have something like the MT, not a Maxy, as the S-10S had the Maxy. I can't honestly say I know that much about the America model as far as what years it was offered, exact specs, etc. Any Fuji experts out there?

Tim

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