[CR]Cinelli models and history...A little clarification would be really helpful...

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From: Tom Sanders <tsan7759142@sbcglobal.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:51:49 -0500
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Subject: [CR]Cinelli models and history...A little clarification would be really helpful...

I am a bit confused over the top line Cinelli bikes. I had always heard "SC" mentioned in connection with really desirable ones...now I find there are both Super Corsa and Special Corsa models (Two SCs? How does one tell them apart? Is the Special Corsa the more desirable of the two?) ...I understand the Super Corsa may have been unchanged since 1948 or so? Yet the company apparently changed hands in 1978 or so and was sold to the Columbus Tubing Company? Then at some point ( '78?) the seat post size changed from 26.4 mm and apparently the models with that earlier seat post size are more desirable? The thickness of the tubing apparently changed? The Company was again sold in 1997 to a company called Gruppo SpA? The more recent Super Corsa bikes are not regarded as KOF, is this true? If so, how recent...from the '70s or from the '90s? I am hoping that some of the Cognoscenti that have been such an integral part of my education on such matters will, once again, step up to the plate and offer some enlightenment.
Thanks in advance,
Tom Sanders
Lansing, Mi USA