Probably the most interesting story I have to tell about classic bicycles happened around 2001. I had just gotten back into cycling after about a 13 year layoff. I started back trail riding with one of my old rigid fork mountain bikes with a soft-ride stem. Lot's of strange looks.
A year or so later i retrieved my Guerciotti team bike from my parents house. These team bikes were all custom painted by Ten Speed Drive in a unique neon orange & green paint scheme for our team in Gainesville Ga. The minimum order for the custom color & team graphics was 12 or 15 bikes. I was studying design at the time & designed the team kit. It was a fun project to be part of. The idea was to get noticed with the bright colors & that was the trend for the late 80's. In fact one of the chain department stores photographed one of our team riders in a race & used that image as the screen image to sell color TV's. Cool time for us! As we were trying to get the order together for the 15 bikes we ran into a snag. TSD did not have one of the Guerciotti's in a size that we needed. Somehow the owner & TSD worked it out to have a Tommaso, TSD's house brand, painted in the team colors with Guerciotti decals to meet the order.
Fast forward back to 2002. I posted my Guerciotti on the Campy Only website in the area for older bikes. Several months later I get an email from a fellow in the mid west saying he has a Guerciotti painted exactly like mine except it has T's engraved in various places. He says he found it on the curb in a pile of trash. He gave me the serial number, I called my friend who was on the team back then. He managed to kept a record of the serial numbers & original owners. The guy in the mid west did have the Tommaso / Guercioti team bike, the odd ball of the 12 or 15 original bikes & he found it on the curb. Kind of an neat story.