I had an old Vespa 125 when I saw a lad in Clacton with a very stylish GS; mid-1963 I think? Got chatting, asked where he got it? “Eddy Grimstead mate – only place to go.”
When I got home I looked him up in Scooter and Three Wheeler magazine. I must have phoned them, because when I went to the shop I knew I had to have my dad with me to sign the HP agreement.
At the Burdett Road shop, Eddy was amazed that I’d come from somewhere 75 miles away and immediately nicknamed me ‘Ipswich’ (although he spelled it ‘Ipswitch’ on the HP form). The HP agreement was set up so I could go to an office near my workplace in Ipswich to pay the instalments. I think I paid every Friday and
