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Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:12 am
by Nudger
Nobby wrote:
pacemaker wrote:Great job done there. Just to make it perfect take the front number plate off and put two on the mudguard. I will look so authentic fo its actual age.


I did consider it but my 2 other scooters- pacemaker and sx200 have black/white number plates on the mudguards so wanted it to be slightly different... also I wanted to break up the large area of beige on the on the front!... and where the orig tax disc is is in the way of number plates?... but yeah I’m not 100% happy with the front no plate something about it doesn’t quite work...

For my 2 cents I'd leave it and change the air brake...sorry.... rear number plate for a more suitable size. Nicely done though Sir

Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:19 am
by Nobby
Nudger wrote:
Nobby wrote:
pacemaker wrote:Great job done there. Just to make it perfect take the front number plate off and put two on the mudguard. I will look so authentic fo its actual age.


I did consider it but my 2 other scooters- pacemaker and sx200 have black/white number plates on the mudguards so wanted it to be slightly different... also I wanted to break up the large area of beige on the on the front!... and where the orig tax disc is is in the way of number plates?... but yeah I’m not 100% happy with the front no plate something about it doesn’t quite work...

For my 2 cents I'd leave it and change the air brake...sorry.... rear number plate for a more suitable size. Nicely done though Sir



Say what! That’s one of the coolest bits of the bike !! :shock: :shock: :D

Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2020 1:01 pm
by Chadley
Nobby wrote:
Nudger wrote:For my 2 cents I'd leave it and change the air brake...sorry.... rear number plate for a more suitable size. Nicely done though Sir


Say what! That’s one of the coolest bits of the bike !! :shock: :shock: :D


I agree - that original rear number plate is great. 8-)

Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 2020 3:11 pm
by Nudger
Haha - oh well it's your scooter after all of course! Just don't ride down any narrow passageways :D

Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:37 am
by Nobby
My van is in for a service so I’m doing my books at home today as you can see..... :)
Took the beige bomber back to the shop in was sold in... most of the buildings are still there ...


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I tried to get a comparison of the mid 60s and now... not sure if it worked- it’s not easy standing in the road in today’s traffic!

Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:45 am
by Nobby
I like to moooove it moooove it??


Readings old cattle markets....

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It’s not all inner city life in reading you know.....

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My home(o) to do some work.......:(


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Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 2:39 pm
by Covboy
cracking pics!

can you add a cow one to the sccoters & streetart thread please?

Thanks!

Steve

Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:53 pm
by Nobby
Covboy wrote:cracking pics!

can you add a cow one to the sccoters & streetart thread please?

Thanks!

Steve



Done... along with some other of mine... took me a while to find the thread tho!

Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:17 pm
by Covboy
Great pics - thanks

Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 12:10 pm
by Rich Oswald
Spot on that.

Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:56 pm
by humble
Great job Nobby, a very conserved 'rustoration'!

Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2020 7:19 pm
by gaz_powell
Brilliant story from start to finish.

Great find and a great job on bike, so easy to have stripped it and restored it.

Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Sat Oct 24, 2020 10:00 am
by Lord-Spanner
Great story and a great looking scoot to boot, credit to you 8-) guessing the previous owner had looked after it well, my rusteration has been well abused, painted more times and more colours than the rainbow has, and more rust than a sunken WW1 ship but its coming on :lol:

Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:48 pm
by Bilko
Superb

Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Mon Feb 01, 2021 8:09 pm
by ROClarke
Absolutely priceless !

Re: Fresh barn/garage find! New project

PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 3:04 pm
by SlackerThePinstriper
Nobby wrote:Little bit more history on the shop it was originally sold in - less than a mile from my house

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I was part of a Reading Trolleybus restoration a couple of years a go.
I got to Signwrite the original logos back on it