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Since: 9/3/2008
Region: Vikersund, Norway & Ashford, Kent
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Morning Phil H
"I'm not sure that too many of us here would have moved in such exalted circles" you say.
I never moved in his circle of friends, purely business, as a distributor he was the man you dealt with along with Mr Manicardi, De Tomaso certainly had no interest in doing so himself, I think he considered that sort of thing beneath him.
Mario was one of the most dynamic people I've come across even though I think he had reached his seventies by the time I got to know him. He smoked like a chimney and at times could even be found at one of the few modenese nightclubs, Shilling it was called. For me that was a real eye opener, where he got his energy from is still a mystery, I've just always hoped that I can show the same sort of youthful vigour when I've been around for nearly a century. The way he moved, talked, it was like a driven man half his age.
Mario had a razor sharp mind and he'd been in the business for a long time, he is probably the only man I've come across that I'd describe as a larger than life character, he would charm customers and visitors to the factory with ease, sometimes taking them on a tour himself. Above all he was very helpful and always optimistic, his sense of humour was always present, he may have had flaws but I certainly never saw any.
He met a lot of people, incredibly I've got to know a man that was a journalist with a local Ashford paper in the eighties, he met Mario during the opening of a dealership here! So that is why I started the thread, Mr Condivi certainly met a lot of people, usually leaving quite an impression.
< Message edited by Evoluzione -- 25/3/2008 13:28:41 >
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