You managed to post a photo of the one bike I was going to point out as an exception. I almost added "unless its a world voygeur" to my previous post.

I do stand behind the opinion that the earlier 80s Voyageurs, are really nothing special. They're just about identical to so many other sports tourers of the day, and many of them were made in the same few factories. Add to that the fact that loaded tourers were already coming into existence. There's little to distinguish the 81' Voyageur from chro moly sports tourers of those years by other manufacturers. Someone has even mentioned the common red on black paint scheme, which was used on Motobecanes, Concords, and so many other bikes. To me, those are just nicely made lugged chro moly road bikes, and their equipment isn't particularly good either. The super maxy crankset has a pressed on large chainring, rather than a 5 bolt pattern with forged arms, which is somewhat substandard equipment.

In that case the Ross would be more interesting, especially since it has Shimano 600 on it. The crankset is much more reliable, and the large chainring is replaceable. Your World Voyageur also has a five arm spider crankset, first gen dura ace, the paint is unique to Schwinn, the lugs are chrome, the rd is crane, the saddle is brooks, it has bar ends, etc., etc, etc. I'd tell you to take that over the Ross and don't look over your shoulder on your way out.

In this case, if the Ross has 600, Ishawata tubing, forged droputs, etc., I'd choose that one.