Originally Posted by
dgilber
Those first Sequoias are hand built beauties, and are very rare. I have seen one in recent years. They have a deeper blue paint color than the later blue Sequoias, and as mentioned, chromed dropouts. No chrome.....no 3Rensho. The decals will say Specialized on the downtube and Sequoia on the top tube.
I am training for my first Ironman, on my Sequoia that I bought in the '80s. I actually took it in to get it worked on and the 20-something who worked on it was all bright-eyed to be working on 'such a great old classic' - yikes, was it really 20 years ago it was new!?
I just went out to the garage to see if I had the chrome - didn't think so and nope, don't. But suffice it to say that one '80s Specialized/Sequoia will be pumpin' it out for the Ironman in Louisville in 2010 ;-)
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