Chas de Lacy Guitars, cars and Lambrettas

“One of the perks of being an employee of Lambretta Concessionaires was the staff discount. Chas soon took up the option in the shape of brand new SX 200 at a greatly reduced premium, promoting him into the premier league of scootering overnight.”

The scooter racing scene in Britain during the late Sixties and early Seventies was a frenetic period of time. With an abundance of cheap second-hand Lambrettas and Vespas in supply, just about anyone and everyone tried their hand on the track. Some were more successful than others and would spend years parading their talents within the scooter racing scene. For one or two individuals though, it would be a short-lived but rewarding career before moving on within the racing world.

Lambretta Gremlins

Chas de Lacy never intentionally set out to own a Lambretta or any other scooter for that fact; it came about more by chance. Having left school in the mid-1960s his first job was working for a photographic laboratory. One of his many duties required him to pick up material from clients using the staff bike, a Raleigh Roma. It was no racing thoroughbred,