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Old 05-14-12 | 10:32 AM
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Picchio Special
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Originally Posted by Bianchigirll
Your Welcome! I just happen to gleen that issue out of a stack of old magazines I gave away last year and reread it a few weeks ago. Too bad they didn't give more information on the marque and what happened to the builder/owner of the name. I guess that Brian Bayliss was just an apprentice?
Bayliss an apprentice? No, no - he and Mike Howard teamed up to form Wizard. Mike did the brazing, Brian did the lug carving/filing and the paint. Both had worked at Masi Carlsbad, of course, and both returned to run the shop there for a while, which was the end of Wizard. Mike went on to Medici, and then serious prison time. Brian of course went on to become an ace painter and also build a very small number of custom frames. I believe they recently teamed up again, with Mike having been out of prison for a while, and built a small number of Wizards to commemorate the original partnership.
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