My guess is 1973 for the lugged frames. These early Lamberts also have chainrings like a TA rather than the later circular cutout design. The earliest ones have normal threaded BBs.
Joe Bender-Zanoni Still using a Lambert front hub aquired way back when
At 06:06 PM 4/20/01 -0400, Moos, Jerry wrote:
>Mine must be earlier than 1974 as it is lugged, and the 1974 brochure
>specifies filet brazed frames. Anyone know what years lugged Lamberts were
>made?
>
>Regards,
>
>Jerry Moos
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lee Berg [mailto:lberg@ventoux.com]
>Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 9:59 AM
>To: Moos, Jerry
>Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: Re: [CR]Lambert
>
>
>Hi, Jerry,
>
>If you haven't seen it already, you may find some useful info in the
>1974 Lambert brochure (pics, feature descriptions, and specs) at:
>
> http://albums.photopoint.com/
>
>Lee Berg
>Palo Alto, Calif.
>
>
>"Moos, Jerry" wrote:
>>
>> I just bought a Lambert Grand Prix frame and death fork from the CR
>> classified page. It's a lugged steel one, purple and white with gold
>lined
>> lugs. The seller included many original parts from this and another
>frame,
>> so the bike is maybe 75% complete. The rear derailleur is steel,
>> medium-long cage, simple parallelogram rather like a Huret Svelto. Is
>this
>> an original Lambert derailleur? It also appears to have the infamous
>> Lambert BB with untapered axle. I've never owned a Lambert before, so
>maybe
>> someone can enlighten me. Is this BB threaded or is it pressed in as it
>> appears it may be?