Full steam ahead Mr Booth & don’t spare the flux capacitor!
It looks like a Series 1 but it’s really a Series 2. It started life as a loop and a frame bought by Doug Turner on eBay. Sean Freeman welded it up. Originally it was yellow and black like a bumblebee, not my cup of tea at all. It looked like someone had thrown up on it.
Doug originally had an S-type engine in it and I went to his house to have a go on it – he’s got a private road, about a mile long, like a drag strip. I’d not had a scooter for years; I’d sold everything when I joined the Navy. Previously I’d tried to build a water-cooled 190cc T5; I had all the parts, proper crank, engraved bits, cost about £5000 all in boxes – I sold the lot when I joined up.
Doug put this one up on Facebook – asking £1700 with a standard Li150 engine. I saw it and messaged him, asking him if he was desperate for the cash, as I’d like it, but didn’t have that kind of money all in one go, but I could pay monthly. Doug agreed (cheers pal!) I paid it off over about six months.
Making the most of what you’ve got
Doug brought it round on a trailer and almost instantly, it went
