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The valuation game

Anyone that’s been around Lambrettas for a considerable amount of time will remember how much cheaper they used to be. I’m not talking about the days when people were getting them out of a garden shed for a tenner, but around the millennium when even the ‘top’ models were only fetching a couple of grand. To those of us that had been pulling them out of sheds in the 1980s that amount was incomprehensible, and most of us were complaining about the obscene prices they were fetching. Fast forward to 2023 and

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