Originally Posted by
skinny
Oh well, maybe it was a small Italian team that pulled out before the start.
Thanks for your replies.

Smaller builders did not have the money to sponsor a trade team, there are many documented accounts of small builders' frames that were painted with the sponsor colors that were not the Peugeot as transfered, for example. Will not be the easiest to document, one could always ask the builder, often the truth surfaces later.