In years past I've owned my share of vintage Raleighs but they weren't vintage back when I owned them.
I've aged out of my old Super Course, I put over 20,000 miles on my 1977 edition years ago, I retired it to the garage wall 30 years ago in need of lots of love but with fresh rubber I suspect it would still ride, but age, knee issues, and back issues tell me it just won't be me. I also own a minty clean '78 Super Grand Prix that never saw much use, but I bought it because I liked the ride better than the SC, but the SC was a bit more nimble to ride.

These days the goal is a clean older Raleigh Sports, which I have my eye on one, but I wouldn't be adverse to a clean old Schwinn or similar model. (My aunt used to have a clean looking Panasonic three speed in the 80's that everyone rode, at least till someone failed to retrieve it from the lake one fall before it froze over. There wasn't much good left on it come spring. No, it wasn't my doing, I was actually more upset about it then she was back then but I had hoped to get hold of that bike one day but months of silt, sand,and mud all but filled the frame and hubs, and rust had set in bad. It had holes in the frame after only five months on the bottom, likely from the fertilizer runoff from the hay fields around there.)

The C&V area is actually what made me sign up, primarily the English three speed posts.