HA!
I just picked up one of those Gran Turismos, NOS.
I liked seeing them in the display case back when, sitting next to the one I coveted, the small alloy job with the stippled body and pearly glow, but the big old touring clunker with the massive chromed pulley cages always held a place in my heart, perhaps because it reminds me of that old bike shop. Even back then we knew it was a lousy performer. But it has its appeal, and makes one heckuva paperweight. Ah ...nostalgia.
Scott Gabriel
Cape Cod
USA
> From: Charles Andrews <chasds@mindspring.com>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] ebay outing..or, optimists among us
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Monday, January 10, 2011, 10:49 AM
\r?\n> http://ebay.com/
\r?\n>
\r?\n> almost as entertaining as capitalist's current
\r?\n> offering..he's lowered his price a little! A miracle:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> http://ebay.com/
\r?\n>
\r?\n> a nice bike--love that de rosa blue--but worth maybe 2500
\r?\n> tops to the right buyer.. still, one has to admire the
\r?\n> audacity of it.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Charles Andrews
\r?\n> Los Angeles
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> "No man is an island, entire of itself; every
\r?\n> man is a piece of the continent, a part of the
\r?\n> main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
\r?\n> Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory
\r?\n> were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or
\r?\n> of thine own were: any man's death diminishes
\r?\n> me, because I am involved in mankind, and
\r?\n> therefore never send to know for whom the bells
\r?\n> tolls; it tolls for thee."
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> John Donne
\r?\n> Meditation 1624