Someone in the club always purchased Scootermania magazine, and then handed it around for everyone to look at. In 1984, one such edition featured the iconic image of a lady posing with an Li150 Special Pacemaker. It was a publicity shot arranged by Lambretta Concessionaires, featuring a stuck-on Pacemaker badge and was actually a TV200, as no Specials had been imported in time for the early press release. Not that anyone noticed at the time or that it mattered; what did matter was that I now wanted to own one.
We were lucky in that a local shop had what seemed like hundreds of Lambrettas for sale, most having been consigned to a neglected storeroom during the 1970s. However, the owner was keen to get anything back for
