Thanks, luker, for your response. The story I remember being told by the shop owner was that it was a salesman sample from a new builder to show the quality of the paint work. The salesman did not want to take the frame back to Italy. I think I paid $120 for it.

At first, I thought it might have been a prototype Mondonico, because of the similarity to the Guerciotti at that time. Mondonico split from Guerciotti around 1987 I believe, so it kind of made sense. But then I spoke with a long-time sales rep for Mondonico, and he said that Mondonico would have never built a frame without a serial number. Who knows??

When I saw the Concorde PDM team bike, everything looked nearly identical. That's when I learned of the Billato connection to Concorde and Ciocce, and found a guy near San Diego who painted alot of the Billato frames. He also said that Billato built no frames without ID.

Speaking of ID, what part of Idaho are you holed up in?? I have some property in Hayden, and figure to flee there someday when California falls of the finacial cliff.