Originally Posted by
RacerOne
Perhaps your recollection isn't quite the reality?

"Perhaps" it is(here's a few from back in the day, that have the larger tubing Im talking about):
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-CANNONDA...item35b4add8dc
Just by looking @ the pics of the last link, you can CLEARLY see that there's a larger down tube, then the current frames.