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Performance with a smile

The inspiration for Duncan's Vespa VBB Street Sleeper project came after all the scooters he'd had over the years, when he thought it was time to have something a bit nicer to look at. "When I was in the car with my Dad in the early 80s I always remember seeing a couple of metal-flake Lambrettas on the motorway and I guess that kind of lodged in my memory. By the mid-80s I was heavily into the psychobilly scene in Stoke and a few of my mates had scooters so it was natural that I got one, too. As the psychobilly scene started to die off (when Shelley's became

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