Re: [CR]Two questions regarding Masi...(Masi connection to other builders/painters)

(Example: Framebuilders:Alex Singer)

Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:08:21 -0800
From: "Jim Allen" <MotorRef@peoplepc.com>
To: Joe Starck <josephbstarck@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Two questions regarding Masi...(Masi connection to other builders/painters)
References: <716145.5221.qm@web34305.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <716145.5221.qm@web34305.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Correct, JB painted a couple of batch of Gran Corsas and/or Nuovo Stradas....

Jim Allen the CycleSmiths Ranchita, CA 92066 760 782 2737

Joe Starck wrote:
> Archive-URL:
> http://search.bikelist.org/getmsg.asp?Filename=classicrendezvous.10701.0763.eml
> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:00:38 -0800
> From: Jim Allen <MotorRef(AT)peoplepc.com>
> Subject: Re: [CR]Two questions regarding Masi...
>
> Jim Allen wrote:
>
> "Definitely not Joe Bell or Bill Holland. Lippy and
> Eisentraut were
> outside contract builders."
>
> Jim,
>
> There IS a wee tad "Joe Bell and Bill Holland"
> connection to Masi: In the mid to late eighties a
> small batch of Gran Corsos(Corsas?) were painted in
> the Bell lab; that was my first visit to the Holland
> shop, when I loaded my pick-up with the finished
> frames. Anybody want the serial numbers to these
> frames? (Just kidding; ain't got.)
>
> Joe Starck
> Madison, WI USA
>
>
>
>
>
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