GranSport70
Thank you for responding, I located your Carlton in Raleigh's 1969 catalog.
(I had originally posted the URL site for the Vintage Raleigh Catalogs in this space. This is only my second entry to Forum and I am required 10 before I am permitted).
They note the great reputation of her winning many races back then. The next year, 1970, my Gran Sport replaces your Carlton as the Raleigh in line after their Professional and International.
I did pay a great deal more money than you did considering she did not include Campagnolo Derailleurs, etc..
I was prepared to purchase a Vintage Schwinn Paramount, Raleigh Professional or an International but I clicked onto the next, 5th or 6th page on the Ebay Vintage Bike site, and low and behold, there was my (Impossible Dream), a Newish/Vintage Gran Sport. They, Ebay, has a New, in the original box, 1974 International and had an immaculate Paramount for considerably more money.
So I couldn't be any happier, (except for my darling wife/best friend of 26 years passing in February).
I can barely straddle the upper tube with my feet flat on the ground but can no longer take off in a running start, with one foot in the stirrup, like a Cowboy getting onto his moving horse after saying "Gitty Up!". Must be the fact that I just turned 70 and getting shorter. I can't whip my other leg that high over the saddle, as reliably as I use to.