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Got a monkey going spare?

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Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:50 am
by Jim
...for an original Ken Cobbing exhaust! It's been nicely renovated, but how much are folk prepared to spend to get 'the real thing'? 2 days to go, and already on £490!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lambretta-Ken ... &_trkparmsAustere times? Aparantly not for everybody!
Re: Got a monkey going spare?

Posted:
Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:46 pm
by davetheoldmod
and to think I had one like this on my Lammy in 1967 and sold the scoot for next to nothing - if only we knew then, why didn't our mums and dads tell us -----or did they ??
Re: Got a monkey going spare?

Posted:
Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:23 am
by Jim
Looks like it's been sold offline- maybe some wedged up geezer approached him with a suitcase full of used £20 notes!
Yes Dave- I can remember way back in 1967 (or was it '68?) riding down to Kings scooter shop just off the bottom of Stokes Croft on a Saturday morning, parking up outside the shop, and going in to buy one of these exhausts! Three pounds seventeen shillings and sixpence or thereabouts was the the asking price! Sounds stupidly cheap, but as a young scrote who was just an office boy at the time, that was more than half my weeks wages!
Kings was the place to go on a Saturday morning, loads of guys there with their scoots, just checking out to see who was riding what! I remember the blokes behind the counter in Kings wore warehouse coats, with all the goodies on display on the wall behind them, I recall discussing if the outrigger would fit my series two TV 175, and the bloke said I would need a new U bend (fifteen shillings?) and either remove or cut down the kick start side rear running board!
Well I only had four bleedin' quid with me, so had to give it a miss on this occasion! I can remember thinking how overpriced these bloody scooter things were - nothing seems to have changed, has it!
Nostalgia - it ain't what it used to be!
Re: Got a monkey going spare?

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Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:23 pm
by Rich B
After looking at ken cobbin exhausts for £599. and £800
Think that`s expensive what about this Cheap as Chips think i sell all my redundant gear and live in the bahamas on proceeds
if not will have to leave to the grand kids and they will have to Pay HRMC inhereitance tax
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LAMBRETTA-GEN ... 2a241ffdd1
Re: Got a monkey going spare?

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Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:26 am
by davetheoldmod
b*****y right rich, going to go through all my bits and pieces and update my will

Re: Got a monkey going spare?

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Fri Nov 02, 2012 3:58 pm
by Steve Holloway
On a similar note, A pair of Lucas Pathfinders on ebay for just a couple of hours, 6 bids and on £100 already, with 7 days still to go.
What recession?
Re: Got a monkey going spare?

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Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:12 pm
by Rich B
Just looking around to see if any thing worth buying but looking on E bay it`s all out of my league
Am i missing out on somthing somewhere
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Orig-Innocent ... 2a248f04e3
Re: Got a monkey going spare?

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Sat Dec 01, 2012 10:53 am
by Steve Holloway
I agree Rich, it`s amazing what this stuff is still fetching
TV200 on ebay at mo, 20 bids has taken it to £6200, with 10 hours to go
Recession? not in Lambretta circles it seems!
Re: Got a monkey going spare?

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Sat Dec 01, 2012 12:08 pm
by davetheoldmod
Steve....gets a bit stupid , take a look at
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130811666677? ... 1438.l2649love his reason for selling a Lambretta
I've owned this scooter for just over a year and just do not use it. If I'm honest I'm a Vespa man and should have just stuck to what I know, no matter how much I want to, I just can't get used to the transition from the way a Vespa handles to the way a Lambretta does. a man who talks sense and he's from the West Country as well

Re: Got a monkey going spare?

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Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:26 pm
by Steve Holloway
See the TV200 ended on £6400 but didn`t meet the reserve
Dave, can`t get into a war of words with you re Lambretta versus *espa, as I just can`t seem to be able to type the word *espa!
Re: Got a monkey going spare?

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Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:22 am
by davetheoldmod
Re: Got a monkey going spare?

Posted:
Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:51 am
by Steve Holloway
Pia**io, *iaggio, P**ggio, Sorry Dave can`t seem to manage that either.
Lambretta, Lambretta, Lambretta, no problem!

Re: Got a monkey going spare?

Posted:
Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:03 pm
by davetheoldmod
Re: Got a monkey going spare?

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Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:23 pm
by gerry
Re: Got a monkey going spare?

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Wed Dec 05, 2012 6:43 pm
by davetheoldmod