Got a monkey going spare?

[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 ... &_trkparms

Austere times? Aparantly not for everybody!

[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 ??

[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!

[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

[davetheoldmod]

b*****y right rich, going to go through all my bits and pieces and update my will

[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?

[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

[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!

[davetheoldmod]

Steve....gets a bit stupid , take a look at http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130811666677? ... 1438.l2649

love 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

[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!

[davetheoldmod]

Steve I'll make it easy for you, try Piaggio - company still making scooters, then Innocenti ummmmm no factory, nomoney no future simples !!!!!!!!!!!!! if its good it will last - steve ....its a no brainer

[Steve Holloway]

Pia**io, *iaggio, P**ggio, Sorry Dave can`t seem to manage that either.

Lambretta, Lambretta, Lambretta, no problem!

[davetheoldmod]

like me steve you can take the boy out of Southmead, but not the southmead out of the boy !!!!!!!!!!!!! should have gone tonight school like wot i did ......

[gerry]

Steve I'll make it easy for you, try Piaggio - company still making scooters, then Innocenti ummmmm no factory, nomoney no future simples !!!!!!!!!!!!! if its good it will last - steve ....its a no brainer

dont make em any good cuz they still make them , , , especialy a curry burner or thia takeaway::
rather be seen pushing a lambretta than riding a vespa

[davetheoldmod]

Glad you got an open mind Gerry been round Coxy for too long I hear