i did some painting today and this is what i got as a payment..
all nos never mounted or even touched since 85..
i cleaned all the old shop dust off before pics.

purple 85 gt pro performer
frame, fork and 86 bars still in bag.
nos,nos,nos...

more pics?

OOOOh YEEEAAH baby!!!

freakin sick !!!

That's awesome! Don't build it. frame it and hang it on the wall!

pauly, i'm not going to build it at all.

i may even sell if the right deal comes my way...
you never know...

So mate, was it a bike shop you did the job for?

Niiiice!

Some guys have all the luck....Or is it good Karma?

wow. looks like you had a pretty good day. nice.

scott, ancient wisconsin secret....lol

i also got a nos white gt epoch head set. i forgot to post it..

Click to view attachmentMy favorite year, color an model!!! Thanks to Smokin Endo, a while back he set me up with those forks NOS and I matched a frame exact. Still my prize posession!! Hopefully you get some good trades or cash, Chris

lol....I wouldn't be telling either!!

nice ride for sure chris....
yours looks great with the black on it..
i wish i had the matching year bars...

Mutha!!!!!!!!!

I am really jealous




Laurent

Very cool score!!!!!!

A much easier explanation.......Good things come to good people. Congrats Bob!

how can you tell by the serial number if it is american made?
it starts with fs and the numbers.

Cool score for sure!

i just found out it is american made...

Very nice indeed... As for the bars, they could just as easily be '85's as '86's post a pic from the front and we can tell. The design changed in '87 I believe so you might just be able to resticker them from a nos sticker and go. Correct me if I'm wrong guys, but I thought that the 84-85-86 were all the same material and bend angles...

Nice set. If only I loved the purple.

But I do love yours Chris. Need some gold pads?

ALL those were full chromo.

I believe the frame geometry was the same but the bars themselves were welded in many different configurations through those years. The downtube bends started in different spots and the gap between TT and DT also varied.

As for the American/Japanese thing...the serial # on the drop WITHOUT a baseball indicates US. WITH baseball or # on the BB makes it Japanese.

87's were very different obviously.

OH yeah, that thing is SWEET!

J

Oh, I just meant for the bars. I think that they were all the same for those years.
The frame head tube angles were different too but just as far as the bars go, were they the same for those years?

Cool. So I guess you are the person telling Rollie the stories about the HUTCH grips .

Now that is sweet!!!

Bro I should have a set of bars
call me on the weekend
~T~

Beautiful! Purple rules!

i got a real nice black Gt block stem with pots mod bolt i'll let go if your interested unless you already have one...congrats on the frame set...sure is beautiful.

Mother of Pearl.. Who had that thing laying around all these years untouched.?? I need a story on that..

Giving me some competition? lol. I`m doing that color tomorrow.