Scooterotica

Some pictures of my Jet 200 rebuild, the scoot was originally purchased without engine from Shocky in May 2009 with the intention of a quick tart up and a small block engine and to be used as my London commuter.

Then I went to Le Mans and saw the Aston Martin entry for the LMP1 class and it set me off in a different direction

I know the Gulf colour scheme has been done before but I wanted to theme it on the Aston take on it and pick up on the use of the 007 race number used by one of the 3 cars (James Bond reference).
I also decided that I would use it as my ride to Gijon for the 2010 Euro Lambretta event so I had a completion target to aim for. Work actually started in February 2010.
Blasting revealed some rust damage and a few dents which needed attention





Primer going on

Base coat

Masking for the pinstripes due to the striping tape not arriving on time






Mick Abbey tuned Ally 225 barrel


Case opend to match





The scoot came with a strange looking Ancilotti type seat which had a home made cover on it so I cut the back and got it recovered by a local trimmer in Norwich.

Finished except for a few crucial stickers which didn’t arrive until the night befor my departure for Gijon

Filling up at the local Gulf Garage




The engine spec is : Indian 225 barrel ported by Mick Abbey, 30mm PHBH, JL3, Indian electronic with August 6000.

Cheers

Colin

I like it very much!
Nice to see another Eibar Lambretta restored

Thats come on a long way since seeing the pics of it in Steves shed last year...really nice looking scoot hope you covered the marcos up when you was spraying..

Really like that Colin. Great job. What does the motor run like?

Diablo wrote:Really like that Colin. Great job. What does the motor run like?

Cheers Al, they motor runs very well except for a large boggy spot in the mid range which I'm advised may well have something to do with a low compression ratio (about 7.2 uncorrected). I may also have to drop the gearing but I thought I'd get the head seen to first and see how it handles it.

Lam46 wrote: hope you covered the marcos up when you was spraying..

I actually sprayed it in a small room off that one which we had just had converted to a bedroom. I convinced my wife that if I taped decorating sheets to the walls and clingfilmed the pine doors all would be fine.......unfortunately, the air blast from the spray gun dislodged some of the decorating sheeting amnd I now have a vey fetching gulf blue stripe across the wall I think iot unlikely that I'll be allowed to do that again

looks great shame i never had the money to do anything with it but needs must and all that

very nice indeed, i like spanish lammy...and gulf colours too!!!

Dam

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coaster wrote:

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not sure what happed there either
sorry ....nice job mate