Originally Posted by
zukahn1
Not sure on who actually made the bike but the Valentino DR's and chrome lugs date it to the late 60's the DR's came out in 68 and they pretty much stopped using that style of chrome lugs on entry level bikes by the early 70's.
Torpado goes back to 1895 and was manufactured by Torresini of Padova, Italy. During the early 1970s bicycle boom, they were very popular in Canada and I can attest that this model still came came with chromed lugs at the peak of the boom. The LBS where I worked, competed against Torpado with Chiorda, who had an almost identical model, right down to the chrome lugs, as late as 1974.