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<blockquote data-quote="SteveO" data-source="post: 104349" data-attributes="member: 3636"><p>Peter,</p><p>Thanks for the sympathy. To be fair to Ian Savage he has PM'd me and I will be speaking to him tomorrow. I can't recall exactly what was said at the time of purchase, it was over two years ago, but I don't think it was advertised as a "matching numbers" bike as such, but it certainly wasn't advertised as a bitsa in a Comet frame either. I don't know, perhaps the price reflected the number issue as well as the condition. It was the cheapest bike they had at the time, but also looked the most standard. It came with a photostat of the factory despatch record which showed the numbers that appeared on the bike - I missed the significance of the /1/. That's why I didn't consult Simon in the first place. Caveat emptor! I need only add my better half is not impressed: "So not only has this bike you spent so much money on broken down, but it also isn't what you thought it was!" She didn''t think it was too clever to mention all this publicly on the forum either, but I pointed out (a) if I came to sell it, anyone from the VOC would likely notice the discrepancy (b) I couldn't in all conscience sell it as something it wasn't myself anyway.</p><p>I hear the sound of Vincent owners all over the country rushing to the garage to carefully examine their frame numbers! Sorry for any extra work generated Simon!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteveO, post: 104349, member: 3636"] Peter, Thanks for the sympathy. To be fair to Ian Savage he has PM'd me and I will be speaking to him tomorrow. I can't recall exactly what was said at the time of purchase, it was over two years ago, but I don't think it was advertised as a "matching numbers" bike as such, but it certainly wasn't advertised as a bitsa in a Comet frame either. I don't know, perhaps the price reflected the number issue as well as the condition. It was the cheapest bike they had at the time, but also looked the most standard. It came with a photostat of the factory despatch record which showed the numbers that appeared on the bike - I missed the significance of the /1/. That's why I didn't consult Simon in the first place. Caveat emptor! I need only add my better half is not impressed: "So not only has this bike you spent so much money on broken down, but it also isn't what you thought it was!" She didn''t think it was too clever to mention all this publicly on the forum either, but I pointed out (a) if I came to sell it, anyone from the VOC would likely notice the discrepancy (b) I couldn't in all conscience sell it as something it wasn't myself anyway. I hear the sound of Vincent owners all over the country rushing to the garage to carefully examine their frame numbers! Sorry for any extra work generated Simon! [/QUOTE]
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