Re: [CR]Speaking of Mel Pinto...

From: "nelson miller" <nelsmiller@msn.com>
To: "Lee Berg" <lberg@ventoux.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Cc: "Bingham, Wayne" <WBINGHAM@imf.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Speaking of Mel Pinto...
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:02:51 -0800

I know that age has caught up with me when I looked at that picture and noticed that Cinelli was spelled wrong! :-( Nelson Miller in Seattle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Berg"
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 10:57 AM
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Cc: Bingham, Wayne
Subject: [CR]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/melpinto.gif

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