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This frame is a bit of an odd bird....it's either a back-door bike or a production bike that has been modified and repainted.
A production bike never would have been painted that way and it never ever would have had those cable guides.....and of course a production bike would have a serial number on the BB shell each and every time.
If I had to guess it's a bike built by an employee with stolen materials and I personally would not trust it. The few guys who liked to steal parts and make bikes to sell mainly to Skidmore students were not skilled builders and there was no accountability or QC. They hacked bikes together with what ever parts they could get (hence the odd cable guides never used on bikes of this era) and painted them themselves of gave a few six packs or a bag of dope to someone in paint to paint it over the weekend. All too many bikes went out the door this way and they had most of the things that made a Serotta a Serotta but not all of them and they typically had no serial number. A few of these bikes were discovered when they failed (or had such poor alignment as to be unusable) and were brought into a Serotta dealer and that dealer contacted the factory. This never ended well.
Buyer beware.
dave
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