A Lambretta scooter rebuild.

Not quite MB related, but not too far off.

This guy bought himself a beat up Lambretta and restored it. Definitely an interesting blog for anyone who's also interested in these MB cousins.
http://www.scooterlounge.com/lambre...ration/sx200-restoration-project-buying.shtml

2door said:

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That might have been the push I needed to get started on my Honda Cub resto. I still haven't brought it home.............

Tom

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Definitely a worthy project, Tom. Though I do understand that it's hard to get to all of the projects we'd like, the Cub is something special.

Ludwig II said:

They were made under licence all over the world. Spanish ones, from what I have been told, weren't as well made as the Italian ones; nor were the Indian (brown people, Asia, nothing to do with Floyd Clymer etc) variety. Somebody in Argentina did them, one of the German motorcycle manufacturers (?Zundapp) started out with them and developed until it was all their own.

Vespas were made in India, Poland and Russia too.

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Yes. And the guys who know these bikes well can tell at a glance which country they came from. I guess the Argentinian Lambrettas used 'Sciambretta' as their actual name. I don't know how a Spanish speaker would pronounce that.

But to my Yankee ears, it sounds a lot like "Sham-bretta".