(Well, over £2.6k at the time of posting)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/270640876246

I know nothing about these beasties, but it seems an amazing amount to
spend on a few bits of metal.


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The Older Gentleman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> (Well, over £2.6k at the time of posting)
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/270640876246

Vespa/Lambretta thingy in bits with loads missing.

I was talking to a chap recently who ran the local Scooter club.We got
chatting, and it transpired my G/F's ex used to have an original Vespa
from the 60's, and apparently they are very sought after now, and "would
you ask if he'll sell it? - 3k if complete"
**** knows why.
But people say that about 1950's Brit bikes, which I think are really
nice.

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The Older Gentleman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> (Well, over £2.6k at the time of posting)
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/270640876246
>
> I know nothing about these beasties, but it seems an amazing amount to
> spend on a few bits of metal.

The GP200 is one of the highly desireable Lambretta variants so this is
enough bits to make a convincing one.

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<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> The Older Gentleman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > (Well, over £2.6k at the time of posting)
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/270640876246
> >
> > I know nothing about these beasties, but it seems an amazing amount to
> > spend on a few bits of metal.
>
> The GP200 is one of the highly desireable Lambretta variants so this is
> enough bits to make a convincing one.

Which would be worth what?


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The Older Gentleman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > The Older Gentleman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > > (Well, over £2.6k at the time of posting)
> > >
> > > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/270640876246
> > >
> > > I know nothing about these beasties, but it seems an amazing amount to
> > > spend on a few bits of metal.
> >
> > The GP200 is one of the highly desireable Lambretta variants so this is
> > enough bits to make a convincing one.
>
> Which would be worth what?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/British-regist...-/300471919118
Looks fairly typical, I could buy a bloody nice bike for less but Lambretta
nuts are a special breed.

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In communiqué <i8iott$dme$(E-Mail Removed)>, (E-Mail Removed)
cast forth these pearls of wisdom
>The Older Gentleman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> > The Older Gentleman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> > > (Well, over £2.6k at the time of posting)
>> > >
>> > > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/270640876246
>> > >
>> > > I know nothing about these beasties, but it seems an amazing amount to
>> > > spend on a few bits of metal.
>> >
>> > The GP200 is one of the highly desireable Lambretta variants so this is
>> > enough bits to make a convincing one.
>>
>> Which would be worth what?
>
>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/British-regist...Lambretta-GP-2
>00-/300471919118
>Looks fairly typical, I could buy a bloody nice bike for less but Lambretta
>nuts are a special breed.
>

That reinforces all my prejudices against concours rebuilds. Give me
something with a bit of 'patina' any day.

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On 10/6/2010 10:54 AM, The Older Gentleman wrote:

> [url showing bare rusty scooter hulk]
>
> I know nothing about these beasties, but it seems an amazing amount to
> spend on a few bits of metal.

The appeal is to people of means who, as teenagers, yearned in vain
after a scooter like this. So now they're trying to fulfill their
deprived childhoods.

Where I was a teenager (in Alberta Canada) you had to be 16 to drive
a car, but you could get a scooter license at 14. Well when I was 14
I may as well have wished for an aircraft carrier because the odds
of getting one were the same as for a scooter, ie arbitrarily close
to zero.

SQ

Pete Fisher <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> That reinforces all my prejudices against concours rebuilds. Give me
> something with a bit of 'patina' any day.

I can see the appeal of "as it left the factory", actually, but like
you, I prefer a bi of patina[1].

What I *hate* are the over-restored things.

[1] Rust.

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In communiqué <1jpzggr.im7btrxrn2s7N%(E-Mail Removed) .uk>,
The Older Gentleman <(E-Mail Removed)> cast forth these
pearls of wisdom
>Pete Fisher <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> That reinforces all my prejudices against concours rebuilds. Give me
>> something with a bit of 'patina' any day.
>
>I can see the appeal of "as it left the factory", actually, but like
>you, I prefer a bi of patina[1].
>

With Morinis "as it left the factory" is always a bit of a lottery
anyway, as it depended on what they had in the parts bins on the day.
I can't be doing with people who will argue, for example, that a bike
has socket head screws where it should have cross point heads made of
cheese.

Of course I don't give a stuff, because the only bike I have that is
remotely "as it left the factory" is the Voxan, and that has
enhancements from original spec.

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Pete Fisher <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> With Morinis "as it left the factory" is always a bit of a lottery
> anyway, as it depended on what they had in the parts bins on the day.

Early 1980s Ducatis were like that, too. Things like wheels and calipers
could vary from bike to bike.

>
> I can't be doing with people who will argue, for example, that a bike
> has socket head screws where it should have cross point heads made of
> cheese.

Agreed. That said, I get a lovely sort of atavistic thrill in undoing
some fasteners which have plainly never been touched since the bike was
first built. It's knowing that the last person who touched that bolt was
the engineer who put the thing together. I like that.

>
> Of course I don't give a stuff, because the only bike I have that is
> remotely "as it left the factory" is the Voxan, and that has
> enhancements from original spec.

Shiny bits in the oil?


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