Reply With QuoteWow - very nice!! I love the Coca-Cola colours. :)
A 1973 125Li lambretta with a SX150 engine + 175 head. I pick it up next week. 8)
Wow - very nice!! I love the Coca-Cola colours. :)
I love the fact that you have a spare wheel :shock:
Very cool
I'd never want to own it as I'd never use it, but that is seriously cool!
8) very nice shaun,
hope to see you out on a few local rides next year.i only go out in shorts and tee shirt weather so mines back under it's blanket for this year :D
cheers,mick
had a lambretta in the 60s but not nearly as cool as that one. love the spare wheel
I'll give you a shout Mick when the weather's fine 8) I'll be a fair weather scooterist too.Originally Posted by mickylall
Very cool 8)
I'll get round to owning a scooter some day :wink:
Wow, now that is cool great colours too 8)
Sweet, brings back fond memories of my youth, I owned an Li 150, TV 175, and an SX 200 back in the day. My all time favorite was an Eddie Grimstead tuned SS180 (200cc) Hurricane, until some low life scrote nicked it.
Couple of sites you may be interested in...... http://www.lambretta.co.uk/models.html http://vespa180ss.com/?q=node/17
Last rode a coffee grinder back in the late 60's, it all ended when a couple of greasers nerfed my now 710 and I into a ditch en-route to Pompey on a very old A3 at Liphook :lol: No harm done, but it did turn me to the Dark Side......Motorcycles :twisted: Been on them ever since.
Ride in good health.
Brian.
just a word of warning,if you are tempted to register on the main lambretta forums - make sure that every nut is italian and you don't have a nyloc where an m5 flat washer should be and absolutely no modern chrome - ever!!
the lambretta nazis are out to get you now you've entered their world :lol: :lol:
cheers,mick
nice
That applies to any classic vehicle forum :lol: a pal of mine has a 125cc BSA Bantam and a few weeks ago on it's 1st run after a full resto an old guy wandered up and berated him for having the wrong rear brake adjuster nut on the bike :shock:
I thought my mate was going to start crying, and that the old chap was joking.......but he was deadly serious :lol:
B.
According to the chassis number the bike was actually built between 1962 - 1967. So maybe brought in from Italy and registered in 1973?
Stunning.
Have had a real longing for one over the past couple of years but not found the right one.
Yet 8)
Very cool, if you are lucky the weather will hold up until you get it!
Oh aye - cracking the flags yesterday, raining today :cry:
Nice, very nice!
Man that is cool. Made my eyes pop out
Very cool, well wear.
God takes me back to the 80's had Vespa SS180 and had it all kitted out:- all the chrome racks and trims you could wish for plus 20 ish chrome spot lights and at least 40 chrome mirrors courtesy of the local ford cortina's and escort's. Used to get stopped by the police just so they could look. It was beautiful, my one regret i never got round to photographing it :( :( :(
Very cool love the colours
i like it drive it well
Yeah... takes me back to the early 70's.... I had eight Lambrettas (never Vespas.... Vespas were never cool) over the years and the most I ever paid for one was eighty quid (1966 'D' reg. TV200.... God alone knows what that would be worth today).
Was never into that much chrome... Most lads just had a small back rest (so the totty didn't fall off) and a spare wheel carrier. Some went further and had front and rear crash bars. One or two even had a couple of mirrors but the whole 'Quadrophenia' thing with dozens of spotlights and mirrors, aerials, Florida bars and so on never happened in Barry. We were more into performance upgrades... 225cc rebores, racing clutch plates, Wal Phillips fuel injector or Amal carb kits, polished and enlarged exhaust ports... I can still hear the bark from those bright yellow Ancillotti exhausts...
These days it's all different. My wife asked recently why didn't I get another Lambretta when I was compaining about wheeling the bike around in the garage. well the truth is my arse is way too big now for a scooter, and as I now ride a Honda Blackbird, I might just find the performance lacking a little....
Rob
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