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A springtime reunion

WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND (BERTIE’S TALE)

After searching through my PC looking for a lost image to include in a recent feature, I became sidetracked (as usual) and ended up wasting a good few hours reminiscing over old pictures, many long since forgotten about.

It was while daydreaming my time away that I came across some old picture scans of one of the Vespa Primavera ET3 machines that I used to import. Little did I know then that it would lead to a reunion of sorts, as that very scooter was still in existence, was in mint original condition and still owned by the couple who I sold it to, almost a quarter of a century ago.

WHERE THE HELL IS IT?

As I was looking for an old picture and trawling through the seemingly thousands of images of scooters that I’ve stored on my hard drive, aka my digital version of a very large cardboard box full to the brim with Polaroids, (I keep promising myself that I’ll sort it out, into some chronological order, but never do) I found some old images of a beautiful brand-new smallframe Vespa that I imported.

As I’m a member of several Facebook pages dedicated to the ‘smallies’ and very much enjoy

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