I came very close to buying a Pauley MTB on craigslist that popped up cheap one day, but I hesitated on the color and it now resides with Jeff over at First Flight:

http://www.firstflightbikes.com/1984_pauley_diamond.htm

This post from CR is probably the most telling on the history.

Bob Hufford
Springfield, MO
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From: CYDYN@aol.com
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:21:00 EDT
Subject: [CR]Re: Chris Pauley

Chris made over 50 frames for my shop from 1980-1986, including the infamous
"Alex Ringer", and two ornate mountain bikes in 1981. Chris made both lugged
and lugless frames. He had a finely tuned aesthetic sense and his work shows
careful filing. I've kept specs on quite a few of the frames he built for my
clients.
One of the most striking was a lugless frame with a Phil Wood 4130
ovalized toptube with internal eyelets for brakes. Cyclart painted that frame
fading it from a deep candy blue at the BB, base of fork and chainstays
through
various stages of aqua to a deep candy green on the toptube. Spectacular!!
I spec'edseveral of Chris's frames with internal cables, generator
mounts and internal wiring, and brazed on head and tailights. James
McLean who
was Specialized first sales rep in my area took pictures and exclaimed
over the
features on one of the frames Chris built for me....about 3 months later
Specialized launched the Expedition with many of the same features and
braze-ons.
Chris Pauley and Greg Diamond worked together on a project to build
small sloping toptube 700c wheel frames for me in 1984. I showed them at
the Long
Beach show with my Hisbiscus decals on them.
I had heard rumors that Chris passed away, but haven't confirmed it.
I'd appreciate any details about him and pictures of the Pauleys and Pauley
Tierra'a that are available. I might have sold some of them new.

Paul Brown
Cycle Dynamics
Santa Rosa, CA