Re: [CR]re: paramount track frame on ebay...

(Example: Racing:Jacques Boyer)

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From: "Steve Leitgen" <sleitgen@charter.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]re: paramount track frame on ebay...
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:37:33 -0500
To: "c. andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Also in the don't get it category, I looked through the bidding history. At least three people upped their own bids. I will readily admit I am an e-bay newbie but does it make sense to bid against yourself?

Steve Leitgen La Crosse, WI

On Jul 25, 2006, at 12:38 PM, c. andrews wrote:
> I suppose this just files under the heading of "I don't get
> it.."
>
> How is it that a very poorly repainted Schwinn track frame
> with nervex lugs commands that kind of price?
>
> That has to be among the most unattractive paint-jobs I've
> ever encountered. Nothing like the beautiful, thin paint
> the original would have had. You can barely discern the
> outline of the seat-lug!
>
> I could see a fully original-finish frame of this kind going
> for over a grand (not over 2, though)..but over 2K for this?
>
> I don't get it. Must be a Schwinn thing.
>
> 140007428468 For those who are still learning this
> stuff...I was once, not long ago, still am too... this is a
> textbook case of how *not* to repaint a vintage frame.
>
> Charles "doesn't get it" Andrews
> SoCal
>
>
> "It's impossible to make a man
> understand something when his
> livelihood depends on him not
> understanding it."
>
> -Upton Sinclair