Re: [CR]Tanguy

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Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:15:58 -0400
To: "Wesley David" <barrellib10@msn.com>, "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>, "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@starpower.net>, "C.R. List" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, "Fred Rafael Rednor" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Tanguy


At 1:52 PM -0400 6/6/04, Wesley David wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fred Rafael Rednor
> To: Joe Bender-Zanoni ; P.C. Kohler ; C.R. List
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 9:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [CR] Peter Kohler's thoughts
>
>
>
> Peter, in the '70s my cousin Rob build frames that he called
> Tanguy and sold a lot of them in his native D.C. -
>
> I owned a Tanguy in the early '80's that was built for a local guy
>named Billy Nukols- had 531 DB main tubes and SP stays- cool bike!
>The head tube logo was a phoenix in flames. Weren't they out of the
>greater Boston area?

Right, Somerville...Rob Horowitz was the guy, very nice frames.

He did nickel-plated dropouts to protect against paint damage by the QR skewer. Might have been the first of the Somerville builders, before Chris Chance and the Chance spinoffs.

The name was taken from a famous surrealist painter.

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