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Sixty-year love affair The Lambretta Series 2

As the 1950s came to a close and the new decade was welcomed in, it was a time when Innocenti was at its greatest. Sales of the Lambretta had reached new levels both home and abroad and it seemed that nothing could stop their domination of the two-wheeled market. A new model was on the horizon and if it was a good as predicted then this would make the company even stronger. Labelled simply as the series 2, it would be made available in three different variants, starting with the budget Li 125 followed by the standard 150 and finally the most powerful of all, the TV 175.

The design was a natural progression

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