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    The cutdown: a good or a bad thing?

    Aug 20, 2018 3 minutes

    Back in the 80s there was an increasing culture of taking a hacksaw to the Lambretta and Vespa bodywork. Mostly this was done by means of trimming the legshields, cutting the rear of the frame off and in more severe cases all of the fixing struts. Though this type of conversion had started a decade before, at the height of the rally scene thousands of machines had been subject to its ideology. Soon the ‘cutdown’ look as it became known was as popular as any other type of customisation.

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