I had a Lambretta in the 70's. I had a sidecar a trailer, my wife a baby and a dog. Camping all over Wales. Even went to Scotland on it. God, those were the days! Thank You For Your Stream.
@@billybarr7443 It's not a lie Bud. I took gears from A Lambretta 125cc and put them into my Lambretta 150cc. It wasn't as fast as it was but much stronger.
Same with my father Innocenti Lambretta Li 150 Serie 2.. abandoned from 2008 back to the road again few months ago.. one of Indonesian endemic innocenti lambretta with full paper document and tax on.. Miss my father so much 🥲 This is my first comment on youtube. Greeting from Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia 🇮🇩 Sorry for my bad english language🙏
That was brilliant, had me chuckling all the way through apart from the order of the ignition check, I was sreeming for you to check the connections at both ends of the coil but you got there in the end. Cant wait for the next one👏👍
Really cool to see one in decent condition 💯🛵🔥🔥. My good friend got one in a estate sale. Unfortunately it was to far gone ( Rusted) 😔. We did get it to run for a few . Definitely a cool find 🎬🛵👍 Cheers 😎
Had 2 Lambretta's back in the 1960's . First one was a 1960 LD125 and second a 1965 LI150 Parker and all the Mod trimmings .Mirrors ,fur backrest etc etc. Longest journey with my then girlfriend (55 years later still together ) was a trip to Wales not a 1000 miles but felt like it on way back...A day we both still remember. Happy days thanks for posting this video.
I bought a lambretta in 1974 it was in very good condition. the guy who I bought it from. Couldn't get it started. I paid him 30 bob for it and had it going in 15 minutes. all it needed was a spark plug. I sold it 3 weeks later for 60 pounds. I wish I had it today.
I had a 1959 Li150 when I was 17, back in '79! I paid just £50 for it, from my dad's mate, Baz Smith, who inherited it from a famous old 'country-man/wildfowler' called Kenzie Thorpe, who bought it new in '59. I just wanted to look the part, as a Mod-revival enthusiast, & was one of a very very few scooter owners, in the Wisbech area, where most lads my age wanted an FS1E, or Garelli Tiger, etc etc! Sadly, it died a death after a couple of years, & I passed it on, very very cheaply, to a guy in Long Sutton, Lincs, who pottered about with bikes, who had it going withing two days, after replacing the piston!! I wish I'd kept it, & fixed it myself, it'd be worth a bomb now!! Where are you 571 ENG?!?!
Not into scooters now, but was back in the day., more a biker, however, this was brilliant and brought back good memories You are very good at video presenting will follow your progress..
Yes I had a series 2 LI in 1965 I think it was a 1959 model, a complete bugger to start after stopping , later had it bored to 175 plus an Amal monobloc carb, and polished ports , it would do 75 with a tail wind lol. Your video brings back so many memories , good and terrible !
Brilliant! I have a 1955 LD150 laid up in my sons garage, not been on the road since 1978. I swapped my Li150 and another bike for it off my mate and 5 years later I've STILL not got round to putting it back on the road! Your video has inspired me to get cracking so thanks for that! Best wishes with yours.
This was really very interesting to see ! Out in my workshop I have my fathers 1960 Lambretta Li 150 that was gone since 1969 and was found 2017 under a big pile of scrap in the village where I grew up. And that was at the house of the uncle to my lady who died a year before... It hasn`t been on the road since -69 and the engine and and much more is sized up but it`s complete and looks a lot like the one you have, white and blue though. I`ve been very buzzy working all these years away from home but I´m 65 now and will try to slow down a little with that if possible and take the time to do some fun for my self some of these last years. To bad I cant put in a photo here in the comments ! I live in Sweden by the way !
Oh wow!! That’s sounds like the perfect project!!… Swedish lambretta model had afew extras as standard that other markets didn’t… Search out stickys ‘Complete Spanner's Manual: Lambretta Scooters’ …. Lambrettas are pretty straightforward to work on… I look forward to watching YOUR videos in the future 😉😉👍🏼
Great work..greetings from India. My LI 150 S2 was also giving me starting trouble after a long drive.Boz it needs an engine rebuild. I increased the fuel supply and reduced the spark plug gap...and it worked.
Great video Mark, very entertaining looking forward to the next one, I remember you from Reading Dukes at the Rose & Thistle, you had a very nice Turquoise GP, keep up the good work 👍🏻
That was brilliant ! Found your channel by accident, and am now a sub. I'm almost 70, and always loved Lambrettas, but never had one. I did have a 1965 Honda 50 though, to get me to and from my first full time work. Loved it, it was 2 tone blue - EYC 62C. Happy days - looking forward to your trip to France ! Take care 🙂
What a great find, I fully understand why you want to upgrade the engine but part of me thinks it should be left as is in all its original glory. Can’t wait for the next episode 👍😀 by the way I’m also a guy that says ‘I ad one of the back in the 60s’ although mine was two months into the 70s but I still have them now too 😀
Had several lamberretas and vespas in the early 80s as feild bikes used to pay between £10/£25 for them back then id strip off the side pannels ,trim down the leg sheilds,remove the front mud gaurd and put knobblie tyres on them remove the racks and go dirt rideing lol I sold all the old parts recently for a few hundred £s witch was way more than i paid for the compleate scooters . I loved how easy they where to ride and they allways lasted a few months of abuse over the feilds after that they where stripped as parts for my other scooters altho a few ended up in the scrappers with bent frames ect . Realy took me back seeing the old scoots thanks for a great vid fella 👍
That was bloody marvelous! Greetings from the Southern California desert, where I ride a pair of Vespas (not simultaneously, mind you)...one new, one bordering on vintage. But I like Lambrettas, too, and I've watched enough Lambretta restoration videos to know my way around the insides of one -- at least, while looking at it on camera! You're one very, very funny bloke (but, then, you knew that!) and your vids are always most enjoyable. (This ain't my first Team Pacemaker rodeo!) Here's to Episode 2...
Nice video and cool spirit. Doubts and recomendations: get rid of electrical short circuits; before dismantling get rid of dust particles with large brush or compressed air; never kick start without inspecting cylinder or at least with a bit of light lub thru spark plug hole; battery is usefull to maintain voltage while starting or with loads like the horn (6v?). Noticed motor going down when you used it; Fuel air mix adjustment is important for a good startup, fuel economy and performance, adjusting the jet needle in the s.u. carburator; Gas station: Fuel only. No oil? I am portuguese with italian mother and my father in 1960 and until 1968 was a sales guy in Guerin VW and Vespa dealer and was one of the founders os Vespa Club in Lisbon. The first scooter he had was a Lambretta and after, all Vespa models. Vespa Club was a main thing with country group tours and competitions where driving skills were taken to the limit. British bykes were popular but he never bought one and sticked to Vespa. Love the music. Congratulations for the entertaining video.
@@paulocavaglia thanks for watching… yes I definitely put oil in the hen I filled her up!- I just didn’t film it… all electrics have been cleaned and renewed now… I’ve never been to Portugal but we have a holiday there in 2 weeks! 👍🏼👍🏼
Fantastic! Cheers! Hope to see your video of riding to Euro Lambretta soon. I attended when it was in Italy in 2017: My scooter pilgrimage... Milan, the old Innocenti Factory, Pontedera, Piaggio factory. I had a blast.
I have my dads 1957 ld150 here with me in France ,bought in Birmingham (still have the original bill of sale) ,all tax discs from 57 to 64 when last on road, I would love to get it running again it’s in original condition, a project for my retirement, I ha been garage stored since 1964. My dad only stopped riding it becauseI was born in 64 an my mom couldn’t carry two kids on the back seat and hold on at the same time! I too have a picture of my dad with the scooter in the background circa 1959
Brilliant!!! 👌🏼 … a proper Labour of love… i don’t know much about ld’s but it’s a 2 stroke and pretty much as basic as an engine can get so I’m sure you can do it!… just don’t leave it with only a 3 week time scale is my advice!! 😆 KFC!
Hi, i had a TV 175 in 1967. Then a few years later, I got myself an SX 200. Great times. Now live on the Isle of Wight and just had the Bank Holiday Scooter Festival. Fantastic to see literally hundreds of scooters turn up.
Good to pick up an old original survivor that's not been butchered. How many takes to get the old parts in the dustbin??? 🙂Bring on the rest of the series!
*My Dad rode an Li150 when he was a lad in the late 50's and early 60's. I never had a Lambretta unfortunately but I did have a Rally 200 Vespa. Anyway, thanks for the upload. Mark*
I'm your classic "I had one of those in the 70s" guy. But it was a 1960 TV175. Pulled out of a garden and brush painted in green and white. Panels off, Ancillotti backrest and Doc Martens on - assume the position.
Great video & ride out on a cracking find from my era even though i was born in 67 so missed out on the scooter era & the skins/rude boys zipping about on them unless you were on the back on N'pton B roads.
In the mid-60s I rode my Lambretta GT200 (with the gold stripe - compulsory if you wanted to be taken seriously as a Mod!) around these very streets in Oxford. Great days.
Haha! of all of the things you commented on the sniffing! 😆. Tbh I did notice when I was doing the editing… but there’s little i could do about it by then… I must of had a slight cold and not even realised!
From across the pond, great job. Working on small engines and for fuel filters / strainers, I've used part of the toe of a pair of nylon tights tied around the pick up tube with a plastic zip tie. Have actually used the leg of a pair of tights as a fan belt. The trouble and strife was not well pleased. Narragansett Bay
😆😁 👋🏼👍🏼Iv actually got a new bigger bore (faster flow ) tap to fit on there because the new topend will require more fuel… but i wanted to get it running and riding using the original parts…
Can't wait for the other episodes. Ee got to Eurolambretta with only one stator going. However coming back two of us came off on the roundabout due to spilt diesel and ive ended up 5 days in Orleans hospital with a fractured hip. Eventually got transferred home and now going to miss most of the summer rides/rallies 😢
Dude!… that’s shit!!… sorry to hear this ☹️, I was knocked off (broken knee cap and arm) afew years ago… and spent time in hospital… don’t worry about the rallies mate just get ya self better!!. Wait are you mates with stu Dawson?… he told me an old mate of his had had an off and was in hospital in Orleans?!… I travelled back with stu and dean stradling …
I knew a couple of guys who owned one of these in Guantanamo Bay Cuba and we used to run around the base on it. It was a nice little machine. Wonder if it is still there running around down there.
Hey Mark, I hope you’re well, great video. Looking forward to watching PT 2. Don’t knock the garage forecourt old timer, that’s how my pal got his TV200 that had been sleeping in his garage since 1979..!! 😮
Im not much of a 'scooter' fan at all. However,I am a fan of anyone taking a rolling reprobate thats seen better days and breathing new life into anything with 2 wheels and then head out to the highway on a roadtrip New subscriber from Cebu Philippines
Just came across your site never been in to lamberts ‘ I ride sport bikes’ I stuck with it ‘ it was a good video good content enjoyed it . Keep up the good work
Already have a 65 Li125 S3 & a 65 Li125 Special which I’ve rebuilt / restored with help from my local Lambretta guru & have recently bought a 60 S2 Li125 to do the same with, all three being Italian imports. However this one looks like it has been in a dry environment as considering it was last registered according to the Italian paperwork back in 78 & also the engine isn’t seized.. Took out the spark plug to have a look & it had the perfect colour, like yours it’s still on original 6v electrics with points… Taking off the petrol tank & emptying it didn’t please my wife as garage attached to house & the smell found it’s way into the rest of our house lol Being the same as yourself similar to an orangutan with legs that are longer than an Olympian pole vaulters pole,😂 I have to have a bench seat to be able to get my legs to fit. Strangely enough I can’t remember it being an issue back in 69 when I bought my first Lambretta or any of the Lambrettas I owned after that..🤷♂️. Great video.. now going to watch part two 👍👍
Just found your channel, fantastic mate, great keeping the patina,right up my street that.....new sub here mate,and watching through your vids,top job fella👍
Great video as always!! Still looking for my resto project to start. Loved seeing Wallingford too. It’s where I spent most of my summers as a kid. And many happy memories in the town!! Wonder if the surname paccagnella means anything to you 🤔 👍
I had a 1959 Series 1 Li150 (yeh I know, everybody had one 😂) reg PCT932 on which I replaced the fixed headlight to the Series 2 variety, probably sacrilege these days. I was an apprentice at a large government engineering factory in Nottingham where we had every type of lathe, grinders and milling machines etc. at our disposal. We machined dozens of scooter heads and bores. One engine was famous as only having 0.002” gap between piston and cylinder head at tdc. I suspect if it was assembled without a gasket, as was the fashion at the time, it would have destroyed itself. Basically, those engines were/are indestructible. Edit: It appears your scooter was bought and registered in Fifeshire (main dealer?) and was shipped straight to Brighton.😊
I wouldn’t say indestructible!! But yes they are tough lil buggers and even now with all the high bhp kits you can fit to them the gearbox and casings etc can withstand (sometimes) 10 times more bhp than what they were intended for
Have a soft spot for this brand because there were these two girls Ita and friend who used to zoom around small retire town of Lawang. Think her dad was a retired executive with Bata.
How did I miss your latest production? Did you advertised it? I m suscribed but I never got it on the feed! Very entertaining as always Mark! Top remarks (I love the odd spontaneous gentleman at the petrol station, I used to get those in Barcelona, but not anymore since I can't hardly get the ol girl for a spin!) and a great hoodie you've got there by the way!
Crank seals dry out with age and initially the engine will start relatively easily, but as the seals wear due to no elasticity left they start to leak and it gets harder to start. Whenever I pull an old two stroke out of a shed I bung some fuel and oil into the crankcases and leave it for a few days, which usually osftens the seals up and makes them pliable, so the spring around the lips can work effectively, once the thing has had a few days suck it all out through the inlet port with a big syringe and it usually works fine.
@@mickymondo7463 aye… I did the 60 mile trip on the old seals- I put new ones in along with new bearings etc for the 1000 mile trip… they were the original 1960 oil seals so I really didn’t think they’d last the 1000 miles without issue and didn’t want to be stuck in the middle of a foreign country with something as major as a full engine rebuild to do!
@@teampacemaker I remember fondly rebuilding my gearbox at the side of the road in Bristol returning from the Weston Super Mare rally, the bearing retaining plate was missing from the output shaft and had walked out on a left hand corner, after finding 4 washers and M6 nuts and hammering the selctor fork straight with a house brick, I got it all back together and made it the remaining 140 odd miles home again. I often took virtually a complete engine in spares with me minus the crankcase, just in case!
@@mickymondo7463 ha!! Yeah iv never had many bottom end problems- it’s usually the top end… however I’d rather do it in the workshop before hand than at the roadside- obvs!… the recovery services in Europe aren’t as good as the uk either!
No mate… that’s the one that came out… tbh I think it needed a longer time with the vinegar in… probably a week … I only left in over the weekend… but I’m running out of time!
@@teampacemaker I had an absolute nightmare with my original petrol tank…I spent a fortune on it & then, right at the end, discovered two pin holes…gutted! Anyway, good luck with the new videos…👍👌😜☺️
I had a Lambretta in the 70's. I had a sidecar a trailer, my wife a baby and a dog. Camping all over Wales. Even went to Scotland on it. God, those were the days! Thank You For Your Stream.
@@paulwood2329 a baby and a dog in a sidecar !! 😃 those were the days!!
God help me stop telling lies lad
@@billybarr7443 🤔😆😆😆
@@billybarr7443 It's not a lie Bud. I took gears from A Lambretta 125cc and put them into my Lambretta 150cc. It wasn't as fast as it was but much stronger.
Nice little fix & seems nippy too & on the oil you should flush it with some turps before refiling it with fresh oil @@teampacemaker
I'm not in to scooters but love a barn find and any thing hands on, great watch 😊
Same with my father Innocenti Lambretta Li 150 Serie 2.. abandoned from 2008 back to the road again few months ago.. one of Indonesian endemic innocenti lambretta with full paper document and tax on..
Miss my father so much 🥲
This is my first comment on youtube.
Greeting from Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia 🇮🇩
Sorry for my bad english language🙏
Greetings from the uk!, thanks for your first comment!!!, your father had good taste in scooters! ❤️
My father also had a Lamberetta LD150 shaft drive magneto so no battery amazing scooter
That was superb, they're beautiful machines.
Brilliant start can’t wait for the rest 👍🏻
Very nice video, but driving through that red light was naughty!
Best scooter video I've watched in a long time
Cheers fella! 🥰
My dad had one exactly like this in the 60s in Dundee Scotland. His name was Ian Ramsay. Thanks for posting! It made a good fathers day gift.
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That was brilliant, had me chuckling all the way through apart from the order of the ignition check, I was sreeming for you to check the connections at both ends of the coil but you got there in the end. Cant wait for the next one👏👍
Good to chat with you at the Marlow Rally last week👍
Thanks so much for sharing I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all of your videos,love and peace from Ireland
Cheers fella!… its feckin hard work very time consuming … so I’m glad you enjoy um!!
Excellent buddy looking forward to the next episode 😂
Really cool to see one in decent condition 💯🛵🔥🔥. My good friend got one in a estate sale. Unfortunately it was to far gone ( Rusted) 😔. We did get it to run for a few . Definitely a cool find 🎬🛵👍 Cheers 😎
Just great Mark..nothing like putting yourself under pressure for our amusement …remember your still better than clarksons farm 😂…
😆 cheers dude! 😆
How can you judge this against clarksons farm?
Without a shadow of a doubt
Had 2 Lambretta's back in the 1960's . First one was a 1960 LD125 and second a 1965 LI150 Parker and all the Mod trimmings .Mirrors ,fur backrest etc etc. Longest journey with my then girlfriend (55 years later still together ) was a trip to Wales not a 1000 miles but felt like it on way back...A day we both still remember. Happy days thanks for posting this video.
@@johncartlidge9292 cheers fella 👍🏼
I can't believe your neighbor dumped out your cleaning mixture all over your driveway when you weren't looking.
I know right!! 😡😡😁
@@teampacemaker are you at LE? How'd the old scooter do?
@@retirednavychief6983 LE?… you’ll have to wait till pt4 to see how it did!… it was eventful is all I can say!!
@@teampacemaker well I hope there's a few new stickers on the old beast when we see it next! Cheers!!
I bought a lambretta in 1974 it was in very good condition. the guy who I bought it from. Couldn't get it started. I paid him 30 bob for it and had it going in 15 minutes. all it needed was a spark plug. I sold it 3 weeks later for 60 pounds. I wish I had it today.
Omg stop telling lies lad
Love it man. You are hilarious. Keep the vids coming man. Very entertaining and informative. I hope you make it the rally.
I had a 1959 Li150 when I was 17, back in '79!
I paid just £50 for it, from my dad's mate, Baz Smith, who inherited it from a famous old 'country-man/wildfowler' called Kenzie Thorpe, who bought it new in '59.
I just wanted to look the part, as a Mod-revival enthusiast, & was one of a very very few scooter owners, in the Wisbech area, where most lads my age wanted an FS1E, or Garelli Tiger, etc etc!
Sadly, it died a death after a couple of years, & I passed it on, very very cheaply, to a guy in Long Sutton, Lincs, who pottered about with bikes, who had it going withing two days, after replacing the piston!!
I wish I'd kept it, & fixed it myself, it'd be worth a bomb now!!
Where are you 571 ENG?!?!
Not into scooters now, but was back in the day., more a biker, however, this was brilliant and brought back good memories
You are very good at video presenting will follow your progress..
@@snakeman9902 cheers fella! …
Im not into scooters but team pacemaker is addictive, love this channel
Cheers fella!
With Italian build quality, I am impressed you recognised it.
Recognised what dude?
Yes I had a series 2 LI in 1965 I think it was a 1959 model, a complete bugger to start after stopping , later had it bored to 175 plus an Amal monobloc carb, and polished ports , it would do 75 with a tail wind lol. Your video brings back so many memories , good and terrible !
@@tonywilkes1781 ha! Cheers!… yeah out of the frying pan into the fire with an Amal! 😁
What a beautiful little vehicle. Since my youth, I've been attracted to these little 2 wheel automobiles.
That was ACE, Can't wait for the next instalment Great work sir
Brilliant! I have a 1955 LD150 laid up in my sons garage, not been on the road since 1978. I swapped my Li150 and another bike for it off my mate and 5 years later I've STILL not got round to putting it back on the road! Your video has inspired me to get cracking so thanks for that! Best wishes with yours.
@@MisterCreamyDude nice one!… chop chop - time is tight?
This was really very interesting to see ! Out in my workshop I have my fathers 1960 Lambretta Li 150 that was gone since 1969 and was found 2017 under a big pile of scrap in the village where I grew up. And that was at the house of the uncle to my lady who died a year before... It hasn`t been on the road since -69 and the engine and and much more is sized up but it`s complete and looks a lot like the one you have, white and blue though. I`ve been very buzzy working all these years away from home but I´m 65 now and will try to slow down a little with that if possible and take the time to do some fun for my self some of these last years. To bad I cant put in a photo here in the comments ! I live in Sweden by the way !
Oh wow!! That’s sounds like the perfect project!!… Swedish lambretta model had afew extras as standard that other markets didn’t…
Search out stickys
‘Complete Spanner's Manual: Lambretta Scooters’ …. Lambrettas are pretty straightforward to work on… I look forward to watching YOUR videos in the future 😉😉👍🏼
😂😂 great footage,, thank you 🙏👊
That tool box compartment was made for a 6 pack, nice having a drink on the side of the road bc a cable came loose and you've no tools to fix it ☘️💚
@@Alan-wn7lo 😀👌🏼
Great work..greetings from India.
My LI 150 S2 was also giving me starting trouble after a long drive.Boz it needs an engine rebuild.
I increased the fuel supply and reduced the spark plug gap...and it worked.
Great video Mark, very entertaining looking forward to the next one, I remember you from Reading Dukes at the Rose & Thistle, you had a very nice Turquoise GP, keep up the good work 👍🏻
@@wooliesurfer ha! Hi mate 👋🏼👋🏼
Cheers…
Just loved the video TP! Very funny and not taking to too seriously. Keep em coming
@@bruceduff1 cheers fella ✊🏻🍗
That was brilliant ! Found your channel by accident, and am now a sub. I'm almost 70, and always loved Lambrettas, but never had one. I did have a 1965 Honda 50 though, to get me to and from my first full time work. Loved it, it was 2 tone blue - EYC 62C. Happy days - looking forward to your trip to France ! Take care 🙂
Thanks!… your never too old you know!
What a great find, I fully understand why you want to upgrade the engine but part of me thinks it should be left as is in all its original glory. Can’t wait for the next episode 👍😀 by the way I’m also a guy that says ‘I ad one of the back in the 60s’ although mine was two months into the 70s but I still have them now too 😀
Had several lamberretas and vespas in the early 80s as feild bikes used to pay between £10/£25 for them back then id strip off the side pannels ,trim down the leg sheilds,remove the front mud gaurd and put knobblie tyres on them remove the racks and go dirt rideing lol
I sold all the old parts recently for a few hundred £s witch was way more than i paid for the compleate scooters .
I loved how easy they where to ride and they allways lasted a few months of abuse over the feilds after that they where stripped as parts for my other scooters altho a few ended up in the scrappers with bent frames ect .
Realy took me back seeing the old scoots thanks for a great vid fella 👍
That was bloody marvelous! Greetings from the Southern California desert, where I ride a pair of Vespas (not simultaneously, mind you)...one new, one bordering on vintage. But I like Lambrettas, too, and I've watched enough Lambretta restoration videos to know my way around the insides of one -- at least, while looking at it on camera! You're one very, very funny bloke (but, then, you knew that!) and your vids are always most enjoyable. (This ain't my first Team Pacemaker rodeo!) Here's to Episode 2...
Thanks! 😆
Very refreshing to find a “just send it” fellow traveller on UA-cam.
Nice video and cool spirit. Doubts and recomendations: get rid of electrical short circuits; before dismantling get rid of dust particles with large brush or compressed air; never kick start without inspecting cylinder or at least with a bit of light lub thru spark plug hole; battery is usefull to maintain voltage while starting or with loads like the horn (6v?). Noticed motor going down when you used it; Fuel air mix adjustment is important for a good startup, fuel economy and performance, adjusting the jet needle in the s.u. carburator; Gas station: Fuel only. No oil?
I am portuguese with italian mother and my father in 1960 and until 1968 was a sales guy in Guerin VW and Vespa dealer and was one of the founders os Vespa Club in Lisbon. The first scooter he had was a Lambretta and after, all Vespa models. Vespa Club was a main thing with country group tours and competitions where driving skills were taken to the limit. British bykes were popular but he never bought one and sticked to Vespa.
Love the music. Congratulations for the entertaining video.
@@paulocavaglia thanks for watching… yes I definitely put oil in the hen I filled her up!- I just didn’t film it… all electrics have been cleaned and renewed now…
I’ve never been to Portugal but we have a holiday there in 2 weeks! 👍🏼👍🏼
Always satisfying when a lammy starts after a 'rest up' ;) quality stuff as always- I look forward to more wide style adventures.
Fantastic! Cheers! Hope to see your video of riding to Euro Lambretta soon. I attended when it was in Italy in 2017: My scooter pilgrimage... Milan, the old Innocenti Factory, Pontedera, Piaggio factory. I had a blast.
Thanks for saving this beauty.
i had one,most fun i ever had. 150 cc. road it all winter going to school
Spiffing video.
Good choice of music too.
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I have my dads 1957 ld150 here with me in France ,bought in Birmingham (still have the original bill of sale) ,all tax discs from 57 to 64 when last on road, I would love to get it running again it’s in original condition, a project for my retirement, I ha been garage stored since 1964. My dad only stopped riding it becauseI was born in 64 an my mom couldn’t carry two kids on the back seat and hold on at the same time! I too have a picture of my dad with the scooter in the background circa 1959
Brilliant!!! 👌🏼 … a proper Labour of love… i don’t know much about ld’s but it’s a 2 stroke and pretty much as basic as an engine can get so I’m sure you can do it!… just don’t leave it with only a 3 week time scale is my advice!! 😆 KFC!
" Dunlop ditchfinders"😂😂😂...that was a great episode thank you...really liking the dry stuff 👍
@@happyhermit2022 cheers mate 👍🏼👍🏼
I filter the vinegar out again and keep it for other tanks. Thank you for sharing your work. Much appreciated
That’s probably a better idea than poring it down the drain Ashley! 👍🏼
That was a top show Mark.. thanks thoroughly enjoyed that
Cheers!…..
Had one new the same colour, so many memories, great little scooter.
I thought I,d give your vid a go.Enjoyed it and it, s a thumbs up.
Thanks
Hi, i had a TV 175 in 1967. Then a few years later, I got myself an SX 200. Great times. Now live on the Isle of Wight and just had the Bank Holiday Scooter Festival. Fantastic to see literally hundreds of scooters turn up.
@@robelee4484 aye… I usually go to the iow but I’m off to Belgium this weekend so couldn’t do it..
@@teampacemaker There's always next year 😀
@@robelee4484 aye!… you never know! 😀😀
Hi I’m Collin from Liverpool
I love the lambretta
Me Iv got a classic Honda 50 x reg 1982
Good to pick up an old original survivor that's not been butchered. How many takes to get the old parts in the dustbin??? 🙂Bring on the rest of the series!
Just 2!….👌🏼😆…
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Fantastic video thank you for sharing
*My Dad rode an Li150 when he was a lad in the late 50's and early 60's. I never had a Lambretta unfortunately but I did have a Rally 200 Vespa. Anyway, thanks for the upload. Mark*
I have a 1963 S3 LI150 with very good patina but nothing compared to yours. Gives them so much more character than a freshly painted example
I'm your classic "I had one of those in the 70s" guy. But it was a 1960 TV175. Pulled out of a garden and brush painted in green and white. Panels off, Ancillotti backrest and Doc Martens on - assume the position.
very good first start mate , love lambretta thanks for video cheers
Great video & ride out on a cracking find from my era even though i was born in 67 so missed out on the scooter era & the skins/rude boys zipping about on them unless you were on the back on N'pton B roads.
I’m guessing that hole was for a lock to stop the panel being nicked ( falling off 😂) great vid!
In the mid-60s I rode my Lambretta GT200 (with the gold stripe - compulsory if you wanted to be taken seriously as a Mod!) around these very streets in Oxford. Great days.
@@hellcatdwe brilliant!! 👍🏼
Good vidio good sense of humour I had a 1959 150 Li from new it was about £ 190 loved it
Italian brilliance
@@terrynicholls4173 cheers mate👍🏼
Nice video. Wish we’d of met at EuroLambretta.
Nick lambretta club of Australia.
@@nicktownsend2125 cheers mate… but how do you know I made it!? 😄🤔👍🏼
@@teampacemaker true !!!
I’ll stay tuned…
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Did arf enjoy that, well done getting the old girl going, poor starting maybe down to failing crankshaft seals, looking forward to the next episode
Cheers!
Been looking for this video for over a year
I only posted it a month ago! 😆
Quality, really enjoyed that. Will watch the others at some point !
Cheers fella… don’t forget to subscribe… it’s free!!…
@@teampacemaker done mate ....keep up the good work !
Very interesting video and I'll be watching again. Can't help thinking of Holly from Red Dwarf when I listen carefully
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Brilliant...... ❤❤❤
Hello from North Carolina! Love this!
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Bellissimo film, grazie.....
Great videos love it 👍
I enjoyed this content, the sniffing drove me crazy though, well done Mark.
Haha! of all of the things you commented on the sniffing! 😆. Tbh I did notice when I was doing the editing… but there’s little i could do about it by then… I must of had a slight cold and not even realised!
From across the pond, great job. Working on small engines and for fuel filters / strainers, I've used part of the toe of a pair of nylon tights tied around the pick up tube with a plastic zip tie. Have actually used the leg of a pair of tights as a fan belt. The trouble and strife was not well pleased. Narragansett Bay
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👋🏼👍🏼Iv actually got a new bigger bore (faster flow ) tap to fit on there because the new topend will require more fuel… but i wanted to get it running and riding using the original parts…
Can't wait for the other episodes. Ee got to Eurolambretta with only one stator going. However coming back two of us came off on the roundabout due to spilt diesel and ive ended up 5 days in Orleans hospital with a fractured hip. Eventually got transferred home and now going to miss most of the summer rides/rallies 😢
Dude!… that’s shit!!… sorry to hear this ☹️, I was knocked off (broken knee cap and arm) afew years ago… and spent time in hospital… don’t worry about the rallies mate just get ya self better!!. Wait are you mates with stu Dawson?… he told me an old mate of his had had an off and was in hospital in Orleans?!… I travelled back with stu and dean stradling …
I knew a couple of guys who owned one of these in Guantanamo Bay Cuba and we used to run around the base on it. It was a nice little machine. Wonder if it is still there running around down there.
Hey Mark, I hope you’re well, great video. Looking forward to watching PT 2. Don’t knock the garage forecourt old timer, that’s how my pal got his TV200 that had been sleeping in his garage since 1979..!! 😮
😮 Hi Phil!, how’s it going?, yeah iv had plenty of people come up to me saying they used to have one but never had a ‘tv200 in the garage guy’ ! 😁
@@teampacemaker All good thanks mate 😃 Loving the videos, keep em coming, you’re a natural.. 👊
@@RadioactiveKiddie I’m so not!! But thanks anyway 😁👍🏼
Im not much of a 'scooter' fan at all.
However,I am a fan of anyone taking a rolling reprobate thats seen better days and breathing new life into anything with 2 wheels and then head out to the highway on a roadtrip
New subscriber from Cebu Philippines
Cheers fella!
Boralá....muito top esta relíquia...Lambretta Li
Just came across your site never been in to lamberts ‘ I ride sport bikes’ I stuck with it ‘ it was a good video good content enjoyed it . Keep up the good work
Cheers fella!… we arnt so different you know! ✊🏻
I had a Mk1 that seized up on me in 1971. Could write a book about the issues with them. Had three at the same tine.
Well we took the piss last time..
No point in changing now 🤣🤣🤣
Lambro euro rally? that sounds like fun!
Great job.
Already have a 65 Li125 S3 & a 65 Li125 Special which I’ve rebuilt / restored with help from my local Lambretta guru & have recently bought a 60 S2 Li125 to do the same with, all three being Italian imports.
However this one looks like it has been in a dry environment as considering it was last registered according to the Italian paperwork back in 78 & also the engine isn’t seized..
Took out the spark plug to have a look & it had the perfect colour, like yours it’s still on original 6v electrics with points…
Taking off the petrol tank & emptying it didn’t please my wife as garage attached to house & the smell found it’s way into the rest of our house lol
Being the same as yourself similar to an orangutan with legs that are longer than an Olympian pole vaulters pole,😂
I have to have a bench seat to be able to get my legs to fit.
Strangely enough I can’t remember it being an issue back in 69 when I bought my first Lambretta or any of the Lambrettas I owned after that..🤷♂️.
Great video.. now going to watch part two 👍👍
Just found your channel, fantastic mate, great keeping the patina,right up my street that.....new sub here mate,and watching through your vids,top job fella👍
Cheers fella! 👍🏼
Really enjoyed that!
Cheers fella!
Mark, Kirkcaldy is pronounced Kir-cawdy 😂. Great video man 👍
@@JLo1960 yeah sorry I’m an terrible with foreign languages 😁… like most English people. I did actually try and look it up… but ….
Just found your channel. Liked and subscribed! 😁
Same as my first scooter back in 1970 which cost me £5.00 from a bloke round the corner. Left a trail of nuts and bolts everywhere I went
@@burtonfootballer5408 they are only as good as the mechanic that maintains them?…
Great video as always!! Still looking for my resto project to start.
Loved seeing Wallingford too. It’s where I spent most of my summers as a kid. And many happy memories in the town!! Wonder if the surname paccagnella means anything to you 🤔
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Great bike man . What a find , I love lambretta's . I had one in the 90's when i was in my teens.
I had a 1959 Series 1 Li150 (yeh I know, everybody had one 😂) reg PCT932 on which I replaced the fixed headlight to the Series 2 variety, probably sacrilege these days. I was an apprentice at a large government engineering factory in Nottingham where we had every type of lathe, grinders and milling machines etc. at our disposal. We machined dozens of scooter heads and bores. One engine was famous as only having 0.002” gap between piston and cylinder head at tdc. I suspect if it was assembled without a gasket, as was the fashion at the time, it would have destroyed itself. Basically, those engines were/are indestructible.
Edit: It appears your scooter was bought and registered in Fifeshire (main dealer?) and was shipped straight to Brighton.😊
I wouldn’t say indestructible!! But yes they are tough lil buggers and even now with all the high bhp kits you can fit to them the gearbox and casings etc can withstand (sometimes) 10 times more bhp than what they were intended for
And yes that is sacrilege!! 😆
Can't wait to see the rest of this
Working on it now!…..
Have a soft spot for this brand because there were these two girls Ita and friend who used to zoom around small retire town of Lawang. Think her dad was a retired executive with Bata.
Just subed. This is fun. Want to see how this goes an all way to the euro 24 rally.❤
New sub, enjoyed the video and the scooter. Cheers
Thats awsome. If it was mine id do minimum restoration.
How did I miss your latest production? Did you advertised it? I m suscribed but I never got it on the feed! Very entertaining as always Mark! Top remarks (I love the odd spontaneous gentleman at the petrol station, I used to get those in Barcelona, but not anymore since I can't hardly get the ol girl for a spin!) and a great hoodie you've got there by the way!
Hi mate… i don’t know 🤷🏻♂️… but no I never advertise them … I’m not brave enough for that…just let people find them and hopefully share them 😬
The holy trinity.....all mod cons, setting sons, sound affects,
Crank seals dry out with age and initially the engine will start relatively easily, but as the seals wear due to no elasticity left they start to leak and it gets harder to start.
Whenever I pull an old two stroke out of a shed I bung some fuel and oil into the crankcases and leave it for a few days, which usually osftens the seals up and makes them pliable, so the spring around the lips can work effectively, once the thing has had a few days suck it all out through the inlet port with a big syringe and it usually works fine.
@@mickymondo7463 aye… I did the 60 mile trip on the old seals- I put new ones in along with new bearings etc for the 1000 mile trip… they were the original 1960 oil seals so I really didn’t think they’d last the 1000 miles without issue and didn’t want to be stuck in the middle of a foreign country with something as major as a full engine rebuild to do!
@@teampacemaker I remember fondly rebuilding my gearbox at the side of the road in Bristol returning from the Weston Super Mare rally, the bearing retaining plate was missing from the output shaft and had walked out on a left hand corner, after finding 4 washers and M6 nuts and hammering the selctor fork straight with a house brick, I got it all back together and made it the remaining 140 odd miles home again.
I often took virtually a complete engine in spares with me minus the crankcase, just in case!
@@mickymondo7463 ha!! Yeah iv never had many bottom end problems- it’s usually the top end… however I’d rather do it in the workshop before hand than at the roadside- obvs!… the recovery services in Europe aren’t as good as the uk either!
Great Video Mark! I really enjoyed that!! TBH I thought that was a Series 3 petrol tank going by the condition…?
No mate… that’s the one that came out… tbh I think it needed a longer time with the vinegar in… probably a week … I only left in over the weekend… but I’m running out of time!
@@teampacemaker I had an absolute nightmare with my original petrol tank…I spent a fortune on it & then, right at the end, discovered two pin holes…gutted! Anyway, good luck with the new videos…👍👌😜☺️
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