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    WAR OF THE WORLD

    Sep 22, 2020 4 minutes
    Words and photographs: Sarge

    Built as a fully functioning example of the various work on offer from Rugeley Scoota Ltd in Staffordshire, it was a fully customised demonstrator. Not only was this Vespa on the cover and a featured machine in January ’87 issue, but it was also the centre page spread, complete with a female model. Three decades-plus ago, War of the Worlds boasted some differences to its recent, reborn incarnation. In the late ’80s it was powered by a standard PX125 lump fitted with a Polini exhaust. Also, it had chrome extended Vespa forks, with chrome and engraved hubs, gear change box and cover, flywheel cowling and various areas of

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