Thanks Lee! What a great flashback.
Just for general information, Mel is still quite alive and well (and in business), and his warehouse is still in Falls Church, about a mile from my house.
Wayne Bingham
-----Original Message----- From: Lee Berg [mailto:lberg@ventoux.com] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 1:47 PM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Cc: Bingham, Wayne Subject: Speaking of Mel Pinto...
Wayne's message reminded me that those who have (and even those who don't have) memories of Mel Pinto might be amused to see this ad from 1974:
http://www.ventoux.com/
Lee Berg in beautifully warm and sunny Palo Alto, Calif.
"Bingham, Wayne" wrote:
>
> Phantom CR list member Marty Walsh brought his newly acquired 1970(?)
Gitane
> over to my house last week, so I shot a few pics. Don't really know too
> much about it yet. Marty claims to remember lusting after one of these
> "back then" in Mel Pinto's shop in Georgetown