The trend these days is to call them ‘custom survivors’; classic custom scooters from the glory years of the 1980s that still exist in one form or another. Some of the greats, such as Italian Stallion and Sign of the Snake, are still with their original owners, while several of Jeremy Howlett’s creations have been painstakingly preserved. Sadly, many are long gone, but what of those discovered lying abandoned for decades and in an appalling state? The answer is to resurrect them, saving as much of the original machine as possible. What if it’s not all there, though? How far do you go in the quest to save a piece of scootering history?
History lesson
Satans Hounds (missing an apostrophe so we’ll keep it like that) was a custom scooter project that started in 1986, taking about three years to build. It was the brainchild of Dean Brighton, a member of the Wakefield Knights Scooter Club
