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Around 4 months ago, my father and I were lucky enough to find an original finish candy red diamond dropout PK (pictured at bottom). At the time, we believed to have discovered one of the nicest (original finish) diamond dropout PK's known to exist... That was until about 3 weeks ago, when this beauty happened to pop up on Ebay. Based on the few pictures provided in the listing and the components on the bike, we pulled the trigger. Little did we know, just how amazing this find would be. The pictures simply do not do this bike justice. The seller was the original owner and a stellar dude, who was also cool enough to provide us with the original sales receipt. The bike came from Freewheelin' Bike Shop located in Lincoln, Nebraska. He saved up money from paper routes to pay for the bike and claims to have only rode it to baseball games and to continue the paper route. His father, who was an avid bicycle enthusiast, made sure this bike was taken care of. There is a bright green Lincoln, Nebraska bicycle license sticker located on the bottom portion of the seat post tube with an amazing story behind it. Since these bikes did not come serialized, the police wanted to carve a serial number into the bottom bracket, in which his dad replied, "absolutely not". Thus, the sticker was alternatively used, and the paint was spared. This bike is a true time capsule and is currently being carefully degreased and cleaned. All the components are era correct and date coded to around the time the bike was bought - April 1980.
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