Scooter ownership was all we craved, but once you got one, the floodgates opened. It didn’t matter whether you were a Vespa or a Lambretta owner, the lure of these fine Italian machines meant that before long a garage would be full of them. The problem was that storing them soon became a logistical nightmare; not just the scooters but all the usual crap that went along with them. Panels, exhausts, and racks discarded from our Mod phase kept stacking up. To us teenagers, that was acceptable, but not so for our parents, whose house was slowly but surely turning into
