my scoots-my history

[a7grenade]

1980/81 ish, we used to go to the Leys club in letchworth; music in three or four rooms, all pills and coke bottles with lines of scooters outside just like Quadrophenia (or at least in my memory!)-picked up this from a posty in hitchin for about £5
pushed it home and promptly started taking it apart-as you did.
it didnt run-was fairly knackered as you can see. i was 14/15 and wanted that pristine lambretta we all dreamt of; seem to remember it was bloody hard work to get the layers of paint off and every bolt seemed welded on.....

[Doom Patrol]

You forgot the piccy.

[a7grenade]

arghhhhgh!

[a7grenade]

all the panels just went down to the tip!!
worth a bleedin fortune now-save me a few quid if i had them...

[a7grenade]

so we started to go to watch scooter racing in about 83-think these are from lydden hill?
have a tape somewhere of them; a cassette recorded standing by the railings-haha

[a7grenade]

anyway, it soon ended up like this
i spent hours with a small metal saw and file in the spare room every night (billy no mates)
perfecting the minimal shape
unfortunately now, this means no channels for side panels
no back end past the lambretta badge and even no frame lower than the toolbox door base

[a7grenade]

meanwhile, as scoots seemed to be quite easily obtained i bought a 79 serveta 150 off a mate. it had been pinched and painted using light blue home made metalflake and hairspray or some similar concoction; it was permanently fluid-a nightmare to strip. was a non runner too.

decided to go scooterboy/cutdown but retained the sidepanels. times were tight so did all the work myself



second phote shows me and a mate on way to Bedlams to see if he could sort the wiring out. in the end we cobbled a dead loss system but although that was ok for daytime, i was very limited on lights just with battery which i had to charge regularly



one occasion getting pulled by the bill driving back from visiting mates in cambridge cos the bike was registered as knicked
they took me to the station to clear things up but it was dusk so i then got a high speed escort home with no lights!
he said keep tight to me!
that wouldnt happen now haha.

soon after i inherited my mothers vw



which distracted me away from lambrettas

[alcoholic maniacs sc]

there must be 500 people on this forum led an identical life in the early 80's. i bought my first scooter a tv200 off a skinhead friend of my mates for 35 quid which i got knicking Lewis leathers from the Lewis shop and selling to rockers. i bought a series 2 a couple of weeks later because it already sort of ran, then a vespa 90. a life of aerosols, lycet spare wheel and seat covers and life without a back light. see cop car, get scoot into a jinnel ASAP!!!. has anybody ever noticed nobody ever had running strips on a lammy in the early 80's. i remeber marvelling at a guy down the cooterclub with an Indian gp and a full set!!! in our small world he was a player!!

[a7grenade]

couple of others;
mums boyfriend 1958



mate of mine on what was my green serveta which i gave to him!
when i had got into cars-mid-late eighties?

i kept the engine though

[RICSPEED]

i bet your mum was thrilled to see you had cut down her vw baja style

any way you could make pics bigger ??