I don't have any pictures of the SX from when I first bought it, but "Dulux" was the theme. It looked pretty reasonable but I ended up scrapping the legshields and front mudguard as the tin worm had eaten away at them. It was registered in September 1967 but strangely has a very late frame number of 8489**. Perhaps the frame was replaced at some point?
It came with all the features of an early SX such as panel handles, shield horncast badge, bolt in fork buffers etc. But for some reason I chose to dress it as a late one with parts I had in my stash. ( had loads of stuff lying around in the "pre-parts fair" years!)
Another thing I did to ruin it was to have the engine built into a Stage 6 reed valved DJ200, with porting by Mr. Webster himself around 1992/3. It was built by a bloke I knew back then who raced with the LLRT by the name of Dave Gibson. It was a lot of money - much more than a TS1 would have been, but I was sold on the tried and tested old style tuning by Dave.
I apologise to the purists for all this, but at the time I had many scooters, and I was younger and stupider back then!
* EDIT - found a pic of it a couple of years after it was bought. It had been stripped down but then pieced together to take up less space!
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Here are a few pictures of its first incarnation - pictures of pictures as I have no scanner I'm afraid, but you get the idea!
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It stayed this way until 2011 when a complete rebuild was done
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 9:00 pm
I do miss the days of cheap Lambrettas.
