Originally Posted by unworthy1
Wish the pics were a bit clearer, but this is the closest match, yet. Since it's repainted chances are the chrome was sandblasted off, if it had chrome. What year is the ad?
The literature has been put back into the archives but it was about 1988/1989. The original pics are only about 1 square inch in area and the media is only slightly better than a paperback, so increasing the resolution actually made things look worse. A straight JPEG copy seemed to work best.
Chroming and the extent may well have been an option, as you suggest, as the finish in the dropout picture appears to paint, as opposed to plating. This was fairly common for small volume builders who did a lot of custom work.
The ad pics match really well with Food's pics and what I recalled from this period. When you consider the additional facts that Limongi was located in the region and often spec'd a model with French components, I can't come up with a better candidate.