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    A Lui by any other name

    Jun 22, 2021 5 minutes
    Words/images: Big Chris

    When I was a lad, back in the early 1980s, right at the very start of my national rally attendance, I was on the train at that time due to my age; and I can remember seeing these funny, little, strange but somehow appealing machines produced by Lambretta, (remember I was young and was not really interested in the history or accuracy of details; it was a Vespa or Lambretta, that was all I needed to know) zipping around the seaside towns that we regularly frequented for such mass gatherings.

    I can remember there used to be a couple of blue ones, in metalflake and chrome, if my memory serves me right, that always seemed to be together, which looked really smart. ‘Little Darling’ comes to mind and I did see a picture fairly recently on a Facebook site of them together – but

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