A couple of you guys may remember my very first post on this forum, when I was yet another noob snooping for info on a Craigslist mystery frame. For those few who may have wondered what ever happened with that, here’s an update.

Once you guys helped me figure out what it was, I soda blasted the pieces and discovered firsthand just how crappy those guys in Novi Ligure did their chrome plating in the late 60’s. No substrate buffer metals, just chrome on steel. Thus the only chrome to survive 45-odd years & the elements was the plating on all four Campy dropouts. Imagine that. A crusty-chrome lining to that cloud was that I was no longer worried about modifying something that was either rare or special. So I carefully cold-set the rear for 130mm, then handed it over to Alex at A-Train Cycles to verify the alignment. He also added a FD cable stop similar to the other originals, near the bottom of the back of the seat tube. Next I had it powder coated with a wild chameleon flake that has a bit of the original factory turquoise flavor, or sapphire blue, or purple depending on your meds & viewing angle. Aussie repro decals finished it off before I installed some moving Campy chrome.

Unfortunately now that I’ve gotten this far with it I realize I’ll probably have to sell it. The spend-o-meter spins triple time when buying shiny old Italian stuff, and it only gets worse from here. I just can’t bring myself to bolt on any bits made somewhere other than “the big boot”. So speaking of boots, I realize now that I may have shot myself in the foot by personalizing it with these colors, but that’s easier to see now that it’s done. I actually love how it turned out, but as we all know opinions are like belly buttons. Every one of em stinks sometime.