Re: [CR] Carlton Cobra Catalog Closeups

(Example: History:Ted Ernst)

To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:13:29 -0800
From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
Cc: kabir@chariot.net.au, julius.naim@gmail.com, marcus.e.helman@gm.com, Jon@FAI.US
Subject: Re: [CR] Carlton Cobra Catalog Closeups


I had a personal email question 2 weeks ago about the paint and parts for a bluish ~70-ish Carlton Cobra bicycle. I found two photographs of the bike in my catalogs and scanned them, cleaned them up, and posted them here :

http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~gillies/cobra/Carlton69_70_Cobra.jpg

http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~gillies/cobra/Raleigh_73_Cobra.JPG

It's a very-cool all-chrome bike, probably the same frame as a Raleigh Grand Prix (but does someone have one they could weigh?) with stripes and fades in clear lacquer to make distinctive english markings on the bike, much like a Raleigh Gransport from 1969.

Sort of a poor-man's chrome paramount ...

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA, USA