As chairman of Burton Brewers Scooter Club, Ian Vanes-Jones has had his hands on most types of scooter. Over the years he’s lavished time and effort on producing some outstanding customs, tuned the living daylights out of others and through his close relationship with the angle grinder has reduced many a full frame into its component parts, yet it’s a humble SX150 that’s lived the most mundane of lives that’s stolen his heart.
In the beginning
The scooter that would become PFA 276H rolled off the Innocenti production line sometime in late 1969. Its frame number places it in the final 1000 SX150s produced and as such it’s fitted with the square horncast badge, push-in fork buffers, plastic toolbox and clip-on
