Originally Posted by
retyred
I've been following this thread closely. I've sifted thru scores of bike pics without success. At this point I believe that it may be a homemade frame which could explain the lack of graphics. Maybe Luigi came into the shop after hours and built a frame. In a country like Italy there must have been plenty of obscure builders scattered about.
That would seem improbable, given a 5 character serial number. Even if we assume one character is a year indicator, that means the shop is buidling at least 1,000 frames a year. If it's purely sequential, then the shop was over 9,000 frames when this one was built. While these are not mass production numbers, they are also not what you see from somebody who just wanted to try his hand at framebuilding.