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Mark's 1980s Classic Custom
Classic Scooterist

Mark's 1980s Classic Custom

Revisiting one of the UK’s best-known custom scooters from the 1980s, which still remains in the possession of its original owner.

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7 mins  |
December 2019 - January 2020
Barry's Dayton Albatross Continental Twin
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Barry's Dayton Albatross Continental Twin

In my younger days, as well as motorcycles, I had a Vespa 90 and a Vespa 90SS, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I returned to scootering (after having several classic cars) with a 1965 Vespa VBB, but I had always hankered after a Dayton Albatross since I was about 12 or 13. Last year I decided to finally fulfil that dream…

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3 mins  |
December 2019 - January 2020
A fire-breathing Winter Model
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A fire-breathing Winter Model

Sometimes in life things appear that stop you in your tracks. It happened to me in 1980 – and again in 2017.

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3 mins  |
April/May 2017
Stan's MotoVespa 150s
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Stan's MotoVespa 150s

Back in the day, one of the scooters Stan Pennington owned was a Messerschmitt-Vespa GS 150 and since then he’s always had a hankering to purchase another one and restore it himself – but things don’t always quite work out as planned…

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6 mins  |
February/March 2017
Rallymaster – And Then Some!
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Rallymaster – And Then Some!

The Lambretta Rallymaster is a machine that’s shrouded in some mystery, not least of which is how many of these machines did Lambretta Concessionaires produce?

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5 mins  |
February/March 2017