Perte, This argument keeps coming up but beggars any serious look at the history of the company. Flash has covered it exquisitely in articles posted on the website and those articles were posted by me into the CR archive couple years ago. This does not deserve any new original responses just refer them to the archive and the website or find the archived discussion and repost it to the list. Just to remind you, the fourth category now represented on Flash collection of bikes has the category of post Latins - he may not be calling them that - inserted between them and the current stuff. Thats all the Spyders and those derived models, Magnum Bonum Spyder/Scorpion, Keyhole, Your purple green hellenic, which as fabrications go are in some ways more hands on than the Latins. The Latins maybe someones favorites - they are mine. But the story didnt end there, regardless of someones uninformed opinion.
Tom in Tucson for the New years
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From: Peter Naiman <hetchinspete1@yahoo.com>
> This debate came up yesterday once more with a fellow CR Member by email as
> there are two Hetchins frames on Ebay from the mid 1980s, and the other member
> proposed to me in his humble opinion that any Hetchins produced once Hetchins
> was purchased by Bob Jackson, and later, and not produced under the watchful eye
> of the hetchins family is really not a true Hetchins. I see the poiint and it
> might be valid, but I'm on the fence as to whether I agree. As Mercedes or
> whoever bought Chrysler a few years ago, now are they a Chrysler or a Mercedes.
>
> From a common sense point, atleast in my way of thinking, if the company is
> sold from one entity to another, the company retains it's lineage in a proper
> way. If however Hetchins had been defunct for a number of years and someone
> started producing frames under the name and logo, but had not purchased the
> rights to produce the brand from the prior owner, then the lineage is broken &
> suspect at best.
>
> Opinions anyone !!
>
> Peter Naiman
> Glendale, WI