Show Us Your Scoots

Dave stumbled across two of his all-time favourite cover scooters recently, so it’s time for this one to hit the spotlight.. As mentioned in the last issue I recently came across two of the three scooters that were featured on my favourite Scootering front page at the recent Cleethorpes National. The front page in question…

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Can’t afford that exclusive vintage machine you always wanted?  No worries, just create your own… Simone Stangalino (Garzone) and Gennaro Santaniello (Mastro Genna) of Vintage Scooter Garage in Pavia, Italy, run a simple garage where monsters are created. Their latest project, the Mini Farobasso, was born in 2016 from an unhealthy idea by Mastro Genna…

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Trevor Harrison is no stranger to the scootering scene. The passion is in his veins and Trev’s antecedents speak for themselves. Trev has been involved in the production of some fantastic custom scooters over the years. To mention just a few: Anthony Miller’s Lambretta, ‘Beyond Redemption’; Gary Carr’s Lambretta Vega, ‘Murder’; Roob Harker’s Lambretta, ‘Split…

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Modifying the Vespa frame has always been difficult due to its pressed steel construction, but this scooter overcame that problem in a smart way… When it comes to the Vespa street racer there is only so much you can do to modify it. While the engine has plenty of scope to improve performance the frame…

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Certain criteria are required for a scooter to sit in Dave’s Nostalgic Custom Corner and this one needed a ‘special pass’ to get in… you’ll see why. Thinking about the greatest sports people of all time, several goliaths come immediately to mind in certain sports – Nicklaus, Borg, Babe Ruth, Jordan (basketball not boobs!), Phelps,…

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Forget West, Keaton, Kilmer, Clooney and Bale. For Scootering readers Lightfoot may be the greatest name yet to be associated with the Caped Crusader…. Chances are that anyone who’s attended any Vespa Club of Britain rally over the past few years has met Jane Lightfoot. Best known for ‘Bella’, her rat-look Motovespa, Jane and her…

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Sometimes, an original design is so good that it can’t be bettered, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be brought up to date… There’s been countless different paint schemes to adorn scooters over the years. Some are so iconic and well done that their legacy lives on. Certain periods in time not only produced classic…

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In Greek mythology, Cerberus is called the `Hound of Hades’. It’s a three-headed dog that guards the gates of the underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. In addition to his extra heads, Cerberus has a serpent for a tail, and snakes protruding from parts of his body… Point in mind With that little lesson…

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Music and lowrider looks were what inspired the creation of Bob Ball’s fantastic scooter, Eclipse. We think he achieved his goal… Two subjects blend Bob had always wanted to build a lowrider scooter, which would be reminiscent of the American 1950s lowrider look and have a paint theme based on The Eclipse, the first legal…

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As a teenager in 1966, Paul Midgley would look at the newly released Lambretta SX200 taking pride of place on display in Watson Cairns & Co scooter dealer shop window in Leeds – and dream that one day he would own one… Getting into the scene That year Paul decided he needed a cheap and…

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