Originally Posted by
gaucho777
The fork crown looks consistent with Confente
#5 (pics on Classic Rendezvous). Ditto the scalloped stays. But the aero cable routing would have to be a later (and unfortunate) mod by the owner. Is the RD cable routed through the chain stay as well? Hard to tell in the pic. Some other details (inner fork tangs, seat cluster, BB shell, dropouts) would help and be welcome.
I like that Cinelli stem with the badge on the side and nice lines around the stem bolt.
There are a fake or two and a "tribute" bike too… that color even to very close… the tribute frame is marked as such on the bottom bracket to proclaim what it is.
The top tube cable routing might be original IF the serial number is 07, not just 7.
If 07 , then the bike would have been built up in Monterey Ca at George Farrier's (sp) home workshop.
There is another example from the Monterey period that has that cable routing.
Mario started over with the numbers and used a leading 0 when he resumed building after being locked out of the Los Angeles shop.
I would expect the brake levers to have a few very small spades milled into the front of them.
If
#07 , then the only hiccup is the chrome fork crown, most of the Monterey bikes had painted crowns.
Only one image, so that is the best I can do.