Please help me identify a vintage Bianchi I just brought home from the local bike recycling co-op. I'd put in a request for a 27" wheel road bike -- anything from a frameset to a complete bike -- and this showed up a week later. (If it's not bent, it'll be rebuilt with parts off my wrecked Nishiki.) It's missing its model decals entirely, and been stripped down almost to the frameset as most parts were only good for scrap according to the co-op mechanic. It has had a rough life. It was also only $20.

- serial number DS316540 on bottom bracket
- Ishiwata 022 CrMo double-butted steel tubes, forks and stays. Lugged. No labels on the dropouts, but the rear ones have adjuster screws.
- painted cherry red (metallic sparkles, like car paint) with chromed fork tips and stay ends. Chrome continues under the paint for some distance. Black cable housing and what used to be black cloth bar tape. Must have been gorgeous new.
- hexagonal decal near top of seat tube, Piagg[damaged] with a symbol like a playing-card spade.
- old-style cantilever brakes, probably alloy, Dia-compe. Front is still functional, rear is missing its cabling and the part that connects the two cables.
- brake levers, Diacompe drillium. Burnt plasticky goo indicates someone melted off the hoods!
- Suntour downtube shifters on braze-on mount
- other braze-ons: 2 sets bottle cage bosses, cable guides (top tube, under bottom bracket, drive side chainstay), plentiful rack/fender eyelets, derailleur hanger
- alloy stem and drop bars. Two stylized logos on bars with wreaths around them. Left side "win"? Right side "Winpista"?
- seatpost, Strong (Japan), probably alloy
- bottom bracket present but too greasy/dusty/rusty to see any labelling