Originally Posted by
753proguy
Yes, the short calipers appeared in '74.
OK, I looked at my NOS Confente-built '72 GC, and it does of course have regular-reach calipers, and they are up pretty high in the slots. Not quite as extremely high as on this tribute bike, though. If I bought this one (too small, plus my wife would kill me anyways...) I would still change the calipers, personally.
Actually, I would consider one of the "V" built Italian bikes exceptions to my notes. Brian Baylis has stated Mario mentioned that the jig frames that were on hand were "wrong" at Carlsbad, well at least some of them and he did not use them. Mario built complete frame and fork sets for Masi while in Italy. This may not have been the case for other sub contractors.