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A little Lambretta Cento with a big story
Big Chris reports: When it comes to vehicles, I love collecting documents. I have every brochure for all the motorised transport we own as a family, even the four-wheeled kind. When it comes to the scooters, I’ve old tax discs, registration documents, sales leaflets, everything; all the bumf and paraphernalia associated with our obsessive love…
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Why Innocenti’s budget Lambrettas failed to win over the UK
In the quest to build a budget model, Innocenti created several cheaper scooters. But for some reason, they never gained full acceptance in the UK. Stu Owen reports… No one can deny the impact the Lambretta had at home and abroad, helping mobilise people around the globe. While Italy revelled in Lambretta’s splendours, the UK…
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First-Generation Mods: A 1960s Scooter Story of Vespas, Lambrettas and the Birth of a Scene
While reading the February 2025 issue of Scootering, Ray Burt came across the article Tell us what you’re thinking and noted readers’ calls for more coverage of the original Mod era. What follows is Ray’s personal account of being part of the first generation of Mods during the mid-1960s — a time when scooters, music…
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