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

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From: "Hamburglar" <afhost@veriomail.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:30:49 -0500
Subject: [CR]RE: Speaking of Mel Pinto...

Whoa. I can put that ad on the wall so I can look at it as I ride my Cortina rollers!

Mel has to be getting on in years. Seems like he's been out of the retail end for some time now. Is he still involved on the import side? I have visions that he has all sorts of brand new vintage stuff stored in an attic somewhere.

Andy Hosterman


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bingham, Wayne"
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 1:54 PM
Subject: [CR]RE: Speaking of Mel Pinto...



> 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/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