Lambretta & knitted Vespa

This Lambretta 150 LD sits in a mall in Stockholm. Just like that, no links to one of the stores surrounding it. BTW, it's close to the newly opened One Direction store! I wonder how many One Direction fans I can disappoint when the they end up on my blog?
The pillow is from another store, and it's portraying a Vespa, sort of...

Winter Lambretta from Spain

This is a special Lambretta, a type I didn’t know existed until a couple of weeks ago. It’s a Spanish Eibar Lambretta Li 150 Winter model. Apparently they were called “Scooter Winter” when they were launched. Not sure why, “winter” not even being a Spanish word. The word for winter in Spanish is “invierno”, in Italian it’s “inverno”.

A factory was set up by a company called Lambretta Locomociones in the Spanish town Eibar in 1953, in order to build Lambrettas on license. The first models, 125/150 D, were built in 1954, followed by the LD-models. About 1964 the company started using the name Serveta and in 1965 100 000 Lambrettas had been built in Eibar, and production didn’t end until 1989.

The "Winter" model is basically a standard Eibar 150 Series 2 but with a different headset. The top is hexagonal, like an SX and the bottom is like a standard Series 2.

This example was found in Alicante and the engine is seized but apart from that everything important is there, apart from the side panels, which are the same as the Italian ones and readily available.
Like all the Spanish models it has the shorter, rounder turning front mudguard, like a Vespa, and the frame and engine numbers match. They usually do on a Spanish Lambretta, if it’s the original engine, but hardly ever did on the Italians.

The English owner, Mark, will begin a restoration in May or June this year.

If anyone knows the origin of the name "Scooter Winter", please inform us!

Here is Eibar Lambretta LD 150. Note the badge with the inscriptions "Eibar" and "LL", the latter for Lambretta Locomociones.

Hexagonal head light and turning mudguard.

The side panels are missing, but the same as on an italian series 2.

Riding on a scooter in style

I have the Lambretta TV 175 series 1, now I want that overall!
But these are ver nice too, from Vespa Club Roma:

Strange cartoon scooter

In the 50's and 60's car cushions were popular in Sweden. Either home-embroidered in cloth or fancy bought ones in the new fancy material plastic.
The one above is of the plastic variety. In the right corner below it says "Be kind to each other in trafik".
The scooter is some sort of fantasy, reminiscing of a Harley-Davidson Topper, or what do you say? Not really, just as ugly...
Vespa and Lambretta always beats their competitors!

Scooter spring? Not yet...

Sun is shining, and the weather is cold...
A picture from today of my Vespa PK 50 XL, in the remains of the snow which is slowly melting away (but more coming next week).
Pic taken just before I discovered that the rear tire is flat. Have to fix that even if there is ice and snow on the roads and still -4 or 5 degrees C.
In the background my Lambretta TV 175 series 1. Maybe it should be stored inside...

Lambretta B - a real beauty!

Not much scootering happening here in Stockholm. Have to go back to the lovely weekend in Imola last september. What really caught my eye was this Lambretta B, the second scooter model coming out of the Innocenti factory.
The production started in November 1948. Improvements were made compared to the Lambretta m (later referred to as the "A"). The Lambretta B had larger wheels, 8-inch to 7-inch, the gear shifter moved to the left handlebar, rear and front suspension and a larger petrol tank to name a few. And the cables were "free", not hidden inside the tubes.
The 123 cc engine still delievered 4,3 hp hurling it up to an impressive 68 km/h. The top speed about the same as for the A, although the B was 8 kilos heavier. You could also have it in four metallic paints; Azzurro (blue), Rosso (red), Verde (green) and Bronzo (bronze), a first for the Lambrettas (after this metallic paint didn't came back until 1963).
During its production up to January 1950 35 014 examples were built in two versions. The first one having the same light switch as the A and the brake cover with an internal control and a wedge-shaped rear brake pedal. I wish a knew this before I took this pictures, then I maybe could have determined if it's a version 1 or 2.
Not as expensive as the model A, maybe I can afford one some day!
I'm not sure but I don't think there is one in Sweden right now. Anyhow, they were never imported here in the old days.
The last picture here is of a Lambretta B in Vittorio Tessera's museum "Scooter & Lambretta Museo". It once belonged to the Innocenti family, special ordered in Giallo (yellow).

Source: "Innocenti Lambretta The Definitive History" by Vittorio Tessera (Giorgio Nada Editori)

Vespa 964 - a new one?

I saw this yesterday, actually. The fatal error in the Swedish version of the 2013 Vespa leaflet. But I was kind enough to concentrate on the presentation of the Vespa 946 in Sweden.

Today I discovered that they made the same mistake twice, above the picture of the 946.

Will this be a collector's item?