In a word;
Ugly
Scott Gabriel
Cape Cod
US
> From: Stronglight49@aol.com <Stronglight49@aol.com>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Peugeot PX10 on eBay
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Saturday, February 5, 2011, 11:17 AM
\r?\n> That ebay "restoration" project was a
\r?\n> bad idea from the start.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> -- eBay Item number: 200571944250
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Wrong era decals and even the enamel color is wrong
\r?\n> if he
\r?\n> had wanted to mimic a Thevenet era PY-10 bike. If
\r?\n> he just
\r?\n> intended a circa 1975 PX-10 model restoration, both the
\r?\n> components and the decals would still be wrong for that
\r?\n> frameset.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Yes, it's sad, but the cost of even correctly restoring
\r?\n> a frameset
\r?\n> can be a major expense and will seldom return the
\r?\n> investment.
\r?\n> In this case, he painted it himself so relatively little
\r?\n> was spent.
\r?\n> However, here is now a frameset with
\r?\n> inappropriate decals. Now
\r?\n> mated with parts from the 1960s to 1980s, it does not form
\r?\n> a bike
\r?\n> representing any precise moment in time.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I would not pay one fourth of the asking price for what
\r?\n> is just a
\r?\n> collection of someone's nice French bits... now
\r?\n> tossed together.
\r?\n> He would be better off re-selling the accumulation of
\r?\n> components,
\r?\n> and then try to sell the frameset alone. The frame size is
\r?\n> a bit too
\r?\n> large to be within the most desirable size range, but
\r?\n> little had
\r?\n> been invested for this venture, anyway.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I'm sure the seller had hoped to make a handsome profit by
\r?\n>
\r?\n> flipping this bike. He should have done his homework
\r?\n> first.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> BOB HANSON, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, USA