1995 - 3.8 Series Hybrid: Hxxx vs Cxxx

[rooney]

I'm fairly content with my current flock of bikes, so naturally, I'm trying to find elusive, uncommon frames to build up into something I don't need or won't end up wanting once I'm finished. This has led me to the 1995 Cannondale C600, available in Iceland Green metallic w/ Green Pearl Hyper-Highlight, featuring that wonderfully thin "Cannondale" font on the downtube.

I love a green bike, and I think they nailed the styling with that particular graphic. It seems like a great candidate for a city commuter 1x setup, maybe an Innicycles threadless conversion headset, with some 38mm tires, fenders (so maybe 35mm tires), racks, etc.

But I've never seen a Cxxx. And I'm not sure what's different about them compared to the Hxxx models. Is it simply component spec? The H600, H400, C600, and C400 share a geo chart. Was it just that the Cxxx models came stock with fenders and a rear rack? I'm sort of answering my own question here, I think, as I look back and forth between the catalog pages.

Anyway, I guess I'm looking for a 22" Iceland Green metallic C600 frameset... or a 22" M500, same year, same color. If anyone could confirm my guesses, that'd be appreciated.

 

[letsbike]

I believe that in Cannondale corporate speak the C was intended as a Commuter bicycle and the H was a recreational Hybrid bicycle.
I took these excerpts out of the 1994 catalog.

 

[black lightning 1987]

New question to me. Looking at the '95 catalog doesn't help as it doesn't even list the wheel size for the C/H bikes though I assume it was 700C for both.
Trek and Gary Fisher had some nice green paint in the same era. I have a Trek 7000 MTB with beautiful green paint, also an 820 and a Fisher that I don't remember the model of. Those are all 26" wheel bikes but there might have been hybrids in their lines with the same paint if green is the priority.