I got involved... well totaly engrossed really... in this project that I stumbled across a week ago. You might remember I had bought a Scooter. And in that post I was telling you how I had always wanted a Vintage Vespa or Lambretta and how that Scooter was a carbon copy of them. Well... let me get to the point here...
I ran into a guy down in Georgia that had an old Vespa he wanted to get rid of. It was kind of beat up cosmeticaly but ran like a top. 6800 original miles on it too. So eventualy he keep lowering the price to me and I finaly went down and looked at it. And bought it.
It is a 1978 P200E. That is a 200cc 2 stroke. 25 years old doesn't seem like that old to me but its older than most of you. And so it gets a Antique tag and all.
Anyway it needed mostly stripping down and painting because its running pretty darn good. And it had the original paint on it from 1978. Lots of knicks and rubs and surface rust setting in where the paint was missing. Needed a new seat (ordered) and a new fuel cut off valve (also ordered). But it does run fine. Good tires on it. But to paint there are many things to remove. All the electrical stuff, original badges and the tranny gears and clutch and cables and all are good on it. So its a "runner" not a looker. So I started last week on it and I am slowly getting it ready for painting. I spent the whole weekend on it as well. And many nights last week. So its now ready for paint. All the parts taken off are bagged and labeled and being restored a little at a time.
Here is a series of pictures of it. I will update as the painting gets done and I start reinstalling everything
Here is is as it sat when I bought it:
I ran into a guy down in Georgia that had an old Vespa he wanted to get rid of. It was kind of beat up cosmeticaly but ran like a top. 6800 original miles on it too. So eventualy he keep lowering the price to me and I finaly went down and looked at it. And bought it.
It is a 1978 P200E. That is a 200cc 2 stroke. 25 years old doesn't seem like that old to me but its older than most of you. And so it gets a Antique tag and all.
Anyway it needed mostly stripping down and painting because its running pretty darn good. And it had the original paint on it from 1978. Lots of knicks and rubs and surface rust setting in where the paint was missing. Needed a new seat (ordered) and a new fuel cut off valve (also ordered). But it does run fine. Good tires on it. But to paint there are many things to remove. All the electrical stuff, original badges and the tranny gears and clutch and cables and all are good on it. So its a "runner" not a looker. So I started last week on it and I am slowly getting it ready for painting. I spent the whole weekend on it as well. And many nights last week. So its now ready for paint. All the parts taken off are bagged and labeled and being restored a little at a time.
Here is a series of pictures of it. I will update as the painting gets done and I start reinstalling everything
Here is is as it sat when I bought it:
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