1959 Lambretta
125 Series I
I have been
commissioned to restore this 1959 Lambretta 125 Series I by a couple in
Lakes Entrance (VIC).
The lady's father bought it for $ 5.00 from the local bike shop in the early
70's in Bombala, a small town just over the
Victorian Border in the South East of N.S.W. Apparently, in those days,
some of the local nurses did their home visits
on
scooters and it is possible that this one could have been one of theirs.
The Lambretta was subsequently used for riding around their sheep farm,
usually joyriding, but often the children
would see their dad returning home with a large sheep balanced over the back
of the seat. So it was a work vehicle as well.
For the last 25 years the scooter was stored in a dusty corner of the hay
shed waiting to be noticed.
The following
pictures show the Lambretta's restoration progress from the time it arrived
at my workshop.
The
body is now at the panel beater and it will take a couple of months before
we can have it back. I
will soon commence rebuilding the engine so...stay tuned....
And here is the
engine being rebuilt
And...after
sanblasting the body components and hydroblasting the engine....
