For Sale: Mystery Italian frame

This project has to pass into someone else's hands:

Mystery frame, looks great, rides better!

What is known:

• Frame/forks are made of high quality, very lightweight tubing, with campag dropouts and Campag (model?) headset.
  
• Rust in places - could definitely do with a respray, but no structural damage.
  

• Bottom Bracket - French threaded:

  • off-side thread is fine.
    
  • drive-side (fixed cup) thread: French thread is fine: a french bottom bracket is installed at the moment - no play - spins fine, but not buttery-smooth. At some point, somebody has installed a British (reverse threaded) fixed cup in there though! You screw one in nearly all the way by hand, but is just off-straight. ie. has been cross threaded. Does not seem to problematically impair the integrity of the French threads though; I was intending on having them chased at Condor or siomilar, but I now think this unecessary.
    
    

• A company called Abilita had something to do with the bike at some point - built, or perhaps more likely resprayed it - seemingly something to do with Paul's Cycle Services (Paul Wilkins(on) in Sturminster Newton).

• Dimensions: ST: 57cm c-t; TT: 56cm c-c; Dropouts: 126mm

• No dents, dings, cracks of any kind.

What is suspected:

• French or Italian-built frame.
  
• Columbus tubing: sticker says "speciali superbutted" which makes it either SLX, SPX, or TSX, though sticker could be a red-herring though.
  
• 'Abilita' - despite sounding Italian, is a company who did a respray at some point - see headtube badge (Abilita Dorset!).
  
  

More photos here: https://picasaweb.google.com/106925898112753957214/Abilita?authuser=0&feat=directlink

SOLD