I hazard a guess that most of us started our scooter careers on a standard machine. Until very recently budding Vespa owners could walk into a showroom and emerge with a shiny new or nearly new PX, but even back in the 1980s Lambretta owners were faced with buying the best second-hand machine they could find. This wasn’t usually a problem as there were always plenty of used Lambrettas to go around, many laying idle since the 1960s and just waiting to burst into life once again. Thankfully they were well built and
