*Finished*.... Project Motovespa 150s (My Virgin Resto)

[cartmel808]

Decided I wanted to try my hand @ doing my own restoration - so after a short search, I bought this little 1965 Motovespa 150s last May, as a project to 'pop me cherry' on..

This is how it looked the day I got it home - original engine (non-runner), and mostly complete & original - bar some missing body trims, and having the added bonus of several top coats of brush applied household gloss!!??....

[cartmel808]

How the f**k do you post pics on here!?...

[ArmandTanzarian]

right click the image.

select copy image url.

Paste it in here

Select it

Click on the img button

[ArmandTanzarian]

Except that doesn't work with Flickr

[ArmandTanzarian]

But you can do it with a lot of mucking about viewing the source code of the Flickr page.




Very nice.

[cartmel808]

Thanks.... I think?

Still haven't a clue how you did that - and I was planning to build up to that very image you've posted - so you kind of wrecked my plans for posting a whole threat of before/after images of the resto!!

I'm really shite with this social media malarkey....

[cartmel808]

Right - I'll try again.....

As I said.... Decided I wanted to try my hand @ doing my own restoration - so after a short search, I bought this little 1965 Motovespa 150s last May, as a project to 'pop me cherry' on..

This is how it looked the day I got it home - original engine (non-runner), and mostly complete & original - bar some missing body trims, and having the added bonus of several top coats of brush applied household gloss!!??....


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[Juan]

It looks a bit on the p155 to me, I'd want it jigged up.

[cartmel808]

It looks a bit on the p155 to me, I'd want it jigged up.

Your right -its was 'a bit on the p155' Juan....

Got it all disassembled & ready for paint removal - and standing over it, looking down @ the front end you could see that the leg shields were slightly offset to the rest of the body.


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So before going any further I had the frame jigged - and it was found to be twisted around the base of the fork tube, so had to cut out an envelope @ the bottom of the fork tunnel, get it straightened & re-aligned, weld in some strengthening plates - and close it back up.... If you look closely @ pics 1+2 you can see a big nasty weld across where the original factory seam normally is - this is where the issue was. Now its all put back together properly, and the frame seam again looks like it did when it came out of the factory..
Everything sits nice & straight now & wheel alignment is spot on also..

[cartmel808]

Sent some of the body panels away to be Chemically Dipped - got most of the paint off (there was at least 5-6 different coats - inc the original), but didn't really do a great job @ removing any surface rust.


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Anyway - my painter wasn't at all happy with the results achieved by the Chemical Stripping process - so he had everything sent away to be glass bead blasted, which got much better results...