[CR]Hinault frames?

(Example: Framebuilding:Brazing Technique)

To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: <youngc@NetReach.Net>
Subject: [CR]Hinault frames?
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:25:32 US/Eastern

I noticed this classic appearing Hinault frame on eBay:

http://ebay.com/<blah>

Has anyone ever seen one of these? I'm wondering if they were originally fabbed by Gitane and just private labeled given his sponsorship and whether they existed before he retired from racing (right around the end of the CR focus). A google search indicates that there is a current Hinault line of bicycles (in aluminum, of course):

http://www.minic2000.fr/

I'm not going to buy it,
Charlie Young
Honeybrook, PA