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Customers Scooters

We would love to see some more pictures of our customers scooters from around the globe. Please send us your pictures, the country you live in and brief details of your Lambretta. We would like to show how world wide the passion of Lambrettas really stretches!
America

Raymond Towells has the best of of them all, the sun shine in Florida where he lives, and his beautifully restored SX200 restored and supplied by us!
Ryan Basile from the US sent us pictures of his Police spec series 2. Not only that the police special has an engine to match, full spec Imola 185!
Australia

Tim in Australia owns this Model D and tells us, this is a picture the day I picked it up from a guy who had it since ' 63. A little rough I know but it's coming together ok.
Australia

Purchased as derelict siezed wreck in the bush in 1974, and that weekend had it running (rather noisey as bearings were rusty). Stripped and packed away for many years.
Started restoration 1984. and the FB was put in museum in 1996. Thought to be used for bread deliveries in West Australia.
Brazil

Andre Ceolin proves that the Lambretta bug is world wide
with this lovely looking series 2.
Canada

Damir from Motoretta in Canada sent us the picture of his Imola powered Lambretta!
France

hi folks, my pleasure to send you some pics of my restored " homemade " lambretta Tv 175 1964' thanks for your nice service and all the good parts !
Nicolas from France
New Zealand

Have attached a picture of my pride and joy - original purchased new - imported to NZ for trade exhibition1969. Owned "Brettas continuously since 1956 (Cuppla LDs 2nd one imported on my return from the great O.E.- to NZ 1960..)
Sidney Salek
Norway

Here is a picture of my 1961 TV II 175, Restored by me. You are my dealer of the Mugello 185 set and everything else. The scooter was, glasblasted then powdercoated. The engine was rebuilt with Mugello 185, new bearings, crankshaft and so on..
Steinar Nesje
Here are two more Lambrettas from Norway, my 1968 200 SX and 1969 125DL. Both have been blasted and rebuilt by me with parts bought from Cambridge Lambretta.
Regards
Gunnar Fjeld
Scotland

Vicky adorning her TV with Mugello 186 kit who along with her other half Patrick (below) both own CLW supplied Lambrettas. Vicky is often found on the garage floor fixing mainting and generally adding new toys to her scooter, although the hammers do have to be hidden when she is around!
Vicky's partner in crime, Patrick with is Li Mugello series 3 restored by us. Patrick and Vicky get out as often as they can on their scooters, even in the snow. Both have quickly become celeb reties on their Lambrettas in their home town in Scotland, appearing in promotional material for their local motorcycle training centre amongst other things!
Dave and Debbie's SX150 with Imola 185 kit, as you can see Debs is the one sat on the scooter, and Dave is hiding behind the camera!!

South Africa

Here are two photos of my father’s (Christo Oberholzer) Lambretta that he has been owning since 1966? We live in South Africa. The first photo when he was young (1966) and the second photo is of the scooter currently (2008).
Eben
Spain

This summer I am enjoying my restored Lambretta more than if I had a new and expensive sport car. I am also doing good publicity of Lambretta-Cambridge by means of my blue T-shirt. Thank you everybody for helping me to restore a machine that, only a year ago, was very next to be thrown to the scrap iron store.
I attach a picture of this satisfied customer and his beloved Lambretta.
Have a nice summer holidays !
Josep Joan Berenguer
Sweden

I bought my Lambretta 150 D, 1957 , at an auction in Sweden last year and it was in a rather poor condition. Since then I have restored it and itīs now in top condition. I have bought many parts from Cambridge Lambretta Workshops, all to my satisfaction. In my youth it was possible for a 16 year old to drive the 150 D if it weighed maximum 75 kg and you were not allowed to bring a passenger. Thatīs why I donīt have a passenger seat on my 150 D. Kenneth Strandborg.
Switzerland

Klaus had his GP restored by us, but his girlfriends scooter is a very clean and original Li 125 Third series, this scooter was stored over 35 years and looks very nice!!
Vietnam

Andy Lee has quite a collection of Lambrettas, this is his latest one, an Imola powered GP!!

The Following customers and scooters are all from the UK

Here is a picture of one of my Boy's Toys I have, a re-built Lambretta 1964 TV 175, all original Italian Model with engine matching the frame.
Frankie's SX200
Allen Well's 1966 Li special, complete with all the lights and bells!
I finished my Li 150 Special yesterday. I bought it from you last november. It was that nice red oxcide painted one, The devil bike, Stock 666. Its not quite as Satanic looking now! It was the first time I've done anything like it. Thanks for all the advice and parts.
Mark Barnard
Please find attached a pic of my GP200 for inclusion onto your customers scooters page, all parts used during the restoration are from yourselves, also much needed advice. I think you will agree the scooter looks pretty special! Keith Brealey
Many thanks for all your help, advice & first class replacement parts & service. Here is a picture of my completed scooter, of which I am now completely intimate with every single individual part. You may want to use it on your customer scooter page. Once again thank you for you help. Kind regards, Tony Cook. Scooter is an Italian import, LiS 125, 1966, rebuilt entirely by me & now resides in Essex, England
Here are some pictures of my Li125 Special, purchased from you at the end of June 2004, since then I have rode it to Hemsby Winter Warmer 2004 + 2005, it has also been to Tenby 2005, Skegness, and Mersea Island, I have left the engine as standard, but will be upgrading it soon, as I have to ride it flat out everywhere. I have also been I contact with the people who owned it before me ( Three Stroke Clothing ), and have to say top quality scoot wear. Here are some pictures when it was in your showroom, and at mersea Island. Keep up the good work John
Thought you might be interested in what i did with the scooter i got from you last year. Totally stripped it down to start with and had everything sanded welded in places and then re-sprayed , replacing everything i could with stainless parts. Upgraded engine by changing to race crank 185 mugello kit ,Varitronic electronic ignition bought from you ,SX 200 gearing and fresco exhaust . I'm still running it in at the moment but so far it's running great.
Chris G, Southampton
Hi, just thought I would send you some final before and after pics of the Li 125 Special that I bought from you last year. Thanks for all the technical help and also the parts. Keep up the good work. Cheers. Gareth
Hi, I belong to the Overlanders SC in N.Ireland. My Lambretta is a 1967 SX200 from my Lambretta collection, its a mugello 225 with 30mm phbh carb with ram airfilter, many thanks Gary
Thought i would send in a pic of the TV175 i bought off you earlier in the year. A before and after shot i thought. Many thanks for the help with parts and other things within your site. Keep up the good work. May do another one soon LOL.
Thanks Tommo
Trevor Askey brought his scooter from us as a restoration project. As you can see Trevor has made a fine job of it. Only thing left is to ride and enjoy it, come on brother Shaun its time yours was done as well!
Jim Mcmanus form Peterborough, self restored GP, "oh with a little help from his friends" although Jim did 99% of the work himself.
This is a picture of my Servetta LI 175 that I purchased from you at the end of 2001. As you can see it is now fully restored. Ron Flesch
Mark from Sidcup. This is Mark's second scooter, both purchased from us. Unfortunately during the restoration of his first scooter Mark some how managed to set fire to a few things, including his scooter, not on purpose we might add. So along came the second version, nice quick Imola engine to match the good looking restoration Mark himself carried out. .
Paul sent us in a picture of his GP, with the following message :- " Hi Peter, thought I'd send you a pic of my finished GP150 Italian model that I have built myself with a little help from you guys".
Finally after to many months hard work we have a picture of Shaun Askey's scooter. Shaun has promised us for ages pictures of the scooter, we have sold him most parts he used for his restoration.
Hi guys just sending you a picture of my S2 named out on the floor. I have only been back into scootering for 2 years and decided to try and rebuild a scoot from scratch.
Been meaning to send the picture of "ModCon" in for months - Mugello 186, 12 volt electrics etc etc converted by yourselves - all the sparkly bits came from you too. Keep the faith! Rgds Herby.
i thought you would like to see the before and after pics of my lambretta li150 silver special i purchased from your company on the 11.06.04 all the work has been carried out by myself and you supplied most of the parts and accessories if you wanted to you can put the pics on your customers scooters wed site i am now thinking about another lambretta to rebuild i will keep checking your web site thanks for all your help.
Mugello equiped special from Mark, lovely looking scoot, and quick to boot!
hi, last year i baught a lambretta Li125 S3 from you. i've just had it resprayed and thought you might like to see a picture.
Small picture inset is the before
Mr Colpin collected his Li Series one from us at the end of june. Under six months later these pictures were in our in tray, no mean feat to restore such a good looking scooter. In Mr Colpin's own words :- "Before i got it, i'd never touched a scooter before, let alone rebuilt an engine. Everything on the bike has been done by myself except for the paintwork, so im kinda proud of the fact that it looks nice, and extra proud that it manages to go along!!"
Small picture inset is the before
The e-mail read:- "Peter, Here's some pictures of a ser2 that was brought into the UK by Cambridge Lambretta, I bought it in a worse state than it was sold by yourselves no eggshells rear runners or mudguard as it had been used as a spares bike for a ser2 TV any way it's now finished in rover king fisher blue and pearlesant white it was an LI 125 but now sports a 185 Imola kit and 30 mil carb and Cambridge long range fuel tank
Small picture inset is the before
Just thought I'd send you before and after pics of the scoot I bought from you back in April 2004. I'm about to get her M.O.T'd this week and registered. Hopefully I'll be on the road by July! Many thanks for the parts & advice.
All the best
Mick Gofton
Thanks for the work re-building the engine. The sunny weather has arrived, the DVLA have pulled their finger out and finally inspected the machine, and the first few dozen miles seem to have gone ok. Anyway, just a few photos of the finished article.
Tim Sharp.

Please note we have not restored any of these scooters, these are simply our customers scooters.