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RARE Vintage 1980s GUS BETAT & SON BICYCLES Cycling Cap NEW ORLEANS USA Viner

$ 79.19

Availability: 11 in stock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Condition: Used
  • Year: 1986
  • Brand: Cap- It-All
  • Modified Item: No
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

    Description

    A real piece of America’s Cycling History
    VERY RARE
    Vintage circa 198
    3-1987
    GUS BETAT & SON BICYCLES
    Cotton & Polyester Cycling Cap
    America’s Oldest Bicycle Shop
    NEW ORLEANS Louisiana USA.
    importer of VINER et al
    Condition is gently Used.
    VERY CLEAN
    ELASTIC IS NOT BRITTLE
    V
    isor: BRIM
    NEEDS A LITTLE MASSAGE BUT I
    S
    NOT BRITTLE
    Shipped packaged flat & carefully
    FAST FREE
    USPS First Class Package
    WE ONLY HAVE ONE OF THESE RARE RELICS
    THANK YOU BUT WE CANNOT ACCEPT OFFERS
    THIS IS A RARE OPPORTUNITY PURCHASE
    QUESTIONS WELCOMED
    A NO RETURN VINTAGE ITEM
    Not the same hat but below is an excerpt from a criminal case in New Orleans, Louisiana - adds another layer of patina to an already legendary cycling cap.
    The evidence shows that on April 25, 1983 George Western was robbed at gun point of his automobile, a blue 1981 Audi, by two men. On April 27, 1983 at approximately 1:00 a.m., New Orleans Police Officers Daniel Luther and Harold Buttone, while in an unmarked police car going west on I-10, observed a blue 1981 Audi pass their car at a high rate of speed. Its license plate was dangling by one bolt, and one of the four passengers, seated in the back of the car, kept looking back nervously at the police.
    The officers followed the Audi while using the police radio to request a license and registration check. They continued to follow the car as it exited off the I-10 at Elysian Fields. Meanwhile, the license check revealed that the plate on the Audi belonged to a 1973 Chevrolet.
    Officer Luther then called for assistance to stop the Audi and turned on the siren and blue lights. The Audi stopped, and Officer Luther got out of the police car and approached the Audi.
    Another police unit responded to the call for assistance and blocked the path of the Audi by stopping some distance in front of it. Although the street was well lit, Officer Luther used his flash light. As he approached the Audi, he could observe all the occupants of the car and noticed they acted nervously. When the officer was just a short distance from the car, its driver suddenly accelerated and went around the police unit blocking its path. A high speed chase ensued. During the chase, the police stayed close behind the Audi and were able to see inside the car. During the chase, the Audi crashed into a parked car and all four occupants "bailed out" and started running. The officers continued to chase the four men.
    After losing sight of the suspects, Officer Luther called in a description of the men over the police radio. He described the driver of the Audi, later identified as Cornelius Petit, as a young black male in his twenties with short cropped hair and wearing a dark colored shirt and hat. The hat had white letters with the words "Gus Betat and Sons, New Orleans, Louisiana."
    Within a few minutes, the police apprehended three of the four men, including Cornelius Petit, and Gregory McKnight. Petit was stopped by Officer William Reiher and his partner about ten blocks from where the Audi had been abandoned. The plainclothes officers identified themselves as police, frisked Petit for weapons, and told him he was not under arrest, but that he fit a general description of a suspect. Officer Reiher also testified Petit was breathing and perspiring heavily.
    Petit voluntarily accompanied the officers to meet Officers Luther and Buttone where he was positively identified by Officer Luther as the driver of the Audi and arrested. Petit was wearing the Gus Betat hat.