Before getting into the nuts and bolts of how Gary Holmes and Eric Jarvis of West Yorkshire Lambretta Restorations turned this French Mk4 from a collection of parts into the beauty you see here, there’s a question that needs to be answered. Given that Innocenti had produced a perfectly viable scooter, why did the French feel the need to change so much of its design? The answer lies in the murky world of post-war European politics.
World War weird
At the end of the Second World War, most European nations were close to bankruptcy. Imports were discouraged by the imposition of heavy import duties, while local production was encouraged
