Oddest frame at the Chesterfield swap meet
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Oddest frame at the Chesterfield swap meet
Meant to post this last week, but it slipped my mind (what's left of it) 
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Middle of the afternoon, things are dead, and a guy shows up with one of the 24k gold plated Lambert frames over his shoulder. Trying to figure out how to replace the bottom bracket bearings. We had a long talk on the subject, I gave him the compilation of all the advice I've ever received or heard.
The frame was beat - it looked like the gold plating was going to start peeling off any time now. Still had the original downtube decals on it. And, he was willing to sell it. For $300.00
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Yeah, I want an original Lambert someday, but not THAT bad. It was, however, only the second gold frame I've ever seen (the first was at TOSRV 1975).
.Middle of the afternoon, things are dead, and a guy shows up with one of the 24k gold plated Lambert frames over his shoulder. Trying to figure out how to replace the bottom bracket bearings. We had a long talk on the subject, I gave him the compilation of all the advice I've ever received or heard.
The frame was beat - it looked like the gold plating was going to start peeling off any time now. Still had the original downtube decals on it. And, he was willing to sell it. For $300.00
.Yeah, I want an original Lambert someday, but not THAT bad. It was, however, only the second gold frame I've ever seen (the first was at TOSRV 1975).
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“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)
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