Scootering

The George Cross island Lambretta

Being a pilot I love aircraft but by the mid-Noughties I was looking for something else to work on – being already heavily involved in the Malta Aviation Museum. I thought about cars and boats and I was looking for an ‘easy job’, but I couldn’t make up my mind until early in 2007 I came across a picture of a Piaggio Vespa plus side car and it caught my eye. There was a similarly shaped aircraft drop tank at the museum stores and I reasoned that I could possibly modify it to look like a side car. Only the scooter was missing from

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