I think this seller dreams in color! I put my PX-10 together from ebay sourced parts, starting with a frame/fork, all catalog correct, many NOS parts, for a little over $600.00, and it did not require any repainting - just touch-ups here and there. What was truly amazing was that the parts all came up in a period of less than a month, mostly from different sellers.
Tony Taylor Manchester, NH
________________________________ From: Angel Garcia <veronaman@gmail.com> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Sat, February 5, 2011 12:02:37 PM Subject: [CR] Fwd: Peugeot PX10 on eBay
"I have spared almost no expense in the restoration.", and "Paint job is presentable, but amateur." about the same as "occasional irregularity".
Angel Garcia Long valley NJ
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <Stronglight49@aol.com> Date: Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:17 AM Subject: [CR] Peugeot PX10 on eBay To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
That ebay "restoration" project was a bad idea from the start.
-- eBay Item number: 200571944250
Wrong era decals and even the enamel color is wrong if he had wanted to mimic a Thevenet era PY-10 bike. If he just intended a circa 1975 PX-10 model restoration, both the components and the decals would still be wrong for that frameset.
Yes, it's sad, but the cost of even correctly restoring a frameset can be a major expense and will seldom return the investment. In this case, he painted it himself so relatively little was spent. However, here is now a frameset with inappropriate decals. Now mated with parts from the 1960s to 1980s, it does not form a bike representing any precise moment in time.
I would not pay one fourth of the asking price for what is just a collection of someone's nice French bits... now tossed together. He would be better off re-selling the accumulation of components, and then try to sell the frameset alone. The frame size is a bit too large to be within the most desirable size range, but little had been invested for this venture, anyway.
I'm sure the seller had hoped to make a handsome profit by flipping this bike. He should have done his homework first.
BOB HANSON, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, USA