Scooterotica

soosh wrote:Both were asked to build a chicken chaser,Innocenti thought "f@@k it" and dint bother but Lambretta Concessionaires said "we can do this and beat the fuckers this time and did this.......................


All Piaggio could do was come up with this poor effort.............i mean,who would want one!

So Lambretta added nice stripes!

philhnottm wrote:

soosh wrote:Both were asked to build a chicken chaser,Innocenti thought "f@@k it" and dint bother but Lambretta Concessionaires said "we can do this and beat the fuckers this time and did this.......................


All Piaggio could do was come up with this poor effort.............i mean,who would want one!

So Lambretta added nice stripes!

But forgot the dampers on the front

No! No! no! and NO!

That is funny.
Shame when Innocenti made the real Lambretta their perception of the market was maybe not as astute..........or was it???

My first scooter, a tv175 s3, had a nice useful tartan carrier behind the legshields and a lovely faux lepard skin seat cover. Heathen that I was I binned them. What would they be worth now I wonder?

eden wrote:they were spot on, that advert is saying that covering a lambretta in their accessories is gay because the lambretta is perfect as it is with out shinny tat.

Well, Innocenti marketing department where too design driven, as everything in Milan today, "il design" is everywhere. They had to be en vogue always (today I thank them for such a wonderful legacy, but I think back then it was their biggest mistake):



Still they where modest, just talking about Bertone as a "world famous designer"... The Countach or the dust beater Stratos where just in the ink quilt yet...



Yes their engine is not as nippy as a Primavera, but hey, can a Vespa afficionado says he has a Bertone design sitting on the garage? (or on the living room as it is my case)

talking of italian car designers .. giovani micholloti seems to get little credit ..