Dave, you are among the fortunate, that you can find the geometry because the bike was more popular.
Whether you should try to reproduce it or not, depends on what you are looking for. If you preferred it's handling, I'd say go for it! But don't expect something identical, because type of lugs, tubing, fork crown, all affected the rigidity and feel of the bike. You do have the opportunity, however, to change materials to favor rigidity or vibration dampering without changing the geometry. That's the beautiful opportunity offered when you want to recreate a ride that you loved.

We sometimes question ourselves (and quite legitimately so) as to whether we can trust an impression from days when we were less experienced. I remember when I tried other rides after my Cambio Rino crash, more standard racing geometries, and I was able to experience immediately the differences because I had the "body-memory" of my lost love.

When going back to a conventional wisdom geometry, you either like it more, or you like it less. I think that an immediate impression is something you can trust and go by. A more average racing geometry is definitely something to test ride to give yourself a baseline of comparison, to help make a decision of what direction to go in.