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Yes it does, "Brev. Campagnolo" is that good then? ;)

I don't suppose anyone knows anything about this frame manfucturer do they? I've tried posting on BikeRadar and CTC and everything! No joy though. =(

The frame's obviously pretty good quality, the "Fangio16" frame id makes me think it might be from a short build run sort of thing and worthy of investigation, it's not like finding a frame with frame id 10345563 is it. For all I know there may only be 16 of these knocking about, it just seems such a shame to lose all that history.

I have of course taken photos of all the decals with measurements before it got sandblasted but beyond that I have nothing else. =(

'Brev Campagnolo' may help you get a rough date (of when the dropouts were made, which might indicate the rough age of the frame.... if you care). Campag stuff either has Brev Campagnolo or Patent Campagnolo, before something like 74 is Brev, after is Patent. I may have that year wrong though. But its out there on the interweb somehwhere, look for the Campagnolo timeline. I'd say that as it has braze-on (not band-on) gear shifters it's probably 60's. Band on is 70s and early 80s, though of course there are frames that don't follow this 'rule'.

FYI for after you repaint: you can get replacement transfers that say 'REYNOLDS Special Lightweight 531' (which was the good stuff from Reynolds at the time) from Mercian cycles and others, like Lloyds.

Have you looked at Classic Rendezvous for info on this builder/marque of framesets? They have lots of info on older European lightweight bikes.

Hope you decide to put gears on it after all. ;)