Although there were road scooters with bodywork alterations, along with engine and running gear changes during the 1960s and 70s, cutdowns – together with ‘chopped’ scooters – were very much an integral part of the Scooterboy era. It was something anyone with access to a hacksaw, and maybe an angle grinder, could carry out themselves in their shed. It also distanced this new culture from the existing Mod scene; after all nothing screams ‘I’m not a Mod’ more than a matt black cutdown! It was during this era that Carl Hissey, builder and tuner of Hardcore, the trick Lambretta cutdown that’s featured here, first became involved with
