Original receipts for C&V bikes purchased when new pop up now and again, and I thought this thread could be a place to put them in one place.
Here's my receipt from the first new bike I ever purchased: a Trek 412 from Palo Alto Bicycles. Back in 1982, I spent my first paycheck from working at a small Silicon Valley startup on this bike. A few years later, I had a head on crash with another cyclist on the Stanford campus and bent the top and down tubes (and wrote a letter to Trek to see if they'd do anything about it--no reply). A short time after that, it was stolen from the Menlo Park CalTrain station (yeah, I continued to ride it with that unfortunately shortened wheelbase--handling was very poor):
And for a bonus, here's the receipt that came with an eBay purchase--a 1961 Raleigh Lenton Grand Prix:
