AGREED
I'd say not either.. The way I see it, if I want a extra special bike at top dollar, it'd better be OE. Maybe I'm not the right individual to objectively evaluate the bike but I just don't see all that much in any '70s bike, Cinelli or otherwise. They weren't all that then and not now either. Bikes weren't regarded the same back then as they were later on. I meen from a contemporary standpoint. Bikes were much cheaper back then by yesterday's dollar as well. There were a few tubesets available; SL, 531 and a few others. Bikes ridden ithe TDF were fairly "regular" in the '60s and very early '70s. This would all change by the end of the decade, moreso with Reynolds frames for instance. In 1973, A Bob Jackson cost about five hundred dollars, a record breaker, a true dream bike, just to give perspective. It was impossible to buy a super expensive Italian bike back then. There were VERY few pricey bikes, Cinelli wasn't one of them. Neither was Colnago or DeRosa. Paramount early on & a couple others, from my having priced them.
From purely a great performing bike perspective, they were 1965 Mustangs (not a complement)