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Breathing new life into a Lambretta

The Framebreather had been bought from Peter by a mate of mine, Mark Richardson, and I went along to collect it as I was going to do the restoration work on it. Peter had originally imported it along with a Lambro three-wheeler that he then went on to lovingly restore once it was back in the UK; and it now looks like it had just been pushed off the Innocenti production line, spotless and in concourse condition. However, because of the time Peter spent doing the restoration on his Lambro, the Framebreather had been neglected, so in the end he made the decision to move it on.

Plenty has been written about restoring Lambrettas and Vespa vintage scooters; some

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