The Midnight Hour
The base scooter of this custom is a humble 1984 GP150, which came from a friend who was starting another project and needed to make some room, so Paul bought it off him. The scooter didn’t have an engine at the point of purchase, so it sat in the workshop for a couple of months, until Paul could muster up the enthusiasm to get started on it. He said: “It was pretty scruffy, as it’d been hard-ridden and so it had the usual knocks, chips and scratches.” The original basecoat paintwork, a lovely green metalflake, was completed by Freddy Holden. Paul explained: “I think to this day he is still swearing about it and vowed never to do another scooter!” So there it sat; Paul had no ideas for it apart from stacking things on top of it, dropping things on it, and him standing there looking at it thinking, ‘what the hell am I going to do with this?’
Project management
Paul’s 2017 scootering season started off with a run of bad luck. He told us: “My other scooter is a street-racer, which had encountered a series of breakdowns and problems, it was one thing after another,
