Interestingly the seller claims it has the original paint - I do wonder about this as the Columbus decal clearly is under clear coat which I don't think was original. Its possible that the original paint has been overcoated in clear...
Hilary Stone, Bristol, British Isles
Charles Andrews wrote:
> Interesting bike:
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> http://ebay.com/
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> Note that the panto'd parts are not congruent with the vintage of the frame, and are not really congruent with each other...frame looks to be 1974-1975 or so, where the crank and stem would have been seen on something from about 1980, and the seatpost was typical on frames from 1975-1979, roughly. Thus, it looks like it was assembled from parts..if it came from the factory that way, all of our colnago-timeline stuff goes into a cocked-hat <g>
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> Nice frame though. Has that cool salmon-metallic paint you don't see much now, but I remember well on Colnagos back in the day.
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> Charles Andrews
> Los Angeles
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>
> Q: "Why do people spoil everything for
> themselves?
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> A: "In big ways, and little ways too,
> people do that all the time to themselves.
> We can't stand prosperity.
> We have to tinker with the machinery."
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> --John D. MacDonald