LCGB Forums

The ability to post messages is restricted to LCGB members. Any questions contact us at lcgbadmin@googlemail.com

Factory Colour

Need specific detail for a particular model, or just found something strange and interesting and want to know if its original. All attention to detail seekers report here!
Strict no chatter

Factory Colour

Postby Den08 » Sun Jan 28, 2024 8:52 pm

Hi All,
I have acquired a K reg gp 125 in Turquoise and on flatting the toolbox lid I’ve gone through to
what looks like original Ochre so rubbed a bit of frame also not sure, would it have been originally Ochre
from factory ?
Den08
 
Posts: 16
Joined: Thu Oct 16, 2014 8:18 pm

Re: Factory Colour

Postby Fast n Furious » Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:59 am

I don't think the GP125 was produced in Ochre??? Turqoise... Yes.
Could it be that you have rubbed back to reveal an etching primer (yellow)?
User avatar
Fast n Furious
 
Posts: 1653
Joined: Sat Nov 19, 2016 3:56 am
Location: York

Re: Factory Colour

Postby nickw » Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:43 am

I also think the GP125 was never manufactured in ochre. Our website says white or turquoise. But as said many times never say never.
nickw
 
Posts: 675
Joined: Sat Jun 07, 2014 10:44 am
Location: Chesterfield

Re: Factory Colour

Postby Afandy » Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:28 am

My understanding also ………..my First scooter was brand New from a Lambretta Dealers showroom …..either white or Turquoise …i went for Turquoise …reg .JXD 7K ……
Funny enough after owning it a year i had an accident the Dealer had it for months…when I questioned why so long……they told me they couldn’t get Turquoise ………so ended up accepting them re spraying Yellow Ochre ………
Afandy
 
Posts: 185
Joined: Fri May 30, 2014 5:10 pm

Re: Factory Colour

Postby Mikedale » Thu Aug 01, 2024 10:12 pm

late spring 1969 125dl
in original untouched white

under the white theres turquoise paint on the horncasting - wonder if it was overpainted white as they had too many blue?
Mikedale
 
Posts: 13
Joined: Sun Sep 10, 2023 9:01 am

Re: Factory Colour

Postby Adam_Winstone » Fri Nov 01, 2024 2:58 pm

Not that I know of, however, I've never seen documentation relating to ochre DL150 in ochre either... but many, many years ago I was chatting to the guys at Cambridge Lambretta and they said that they'd had a 150 import in that appeared to be original ochre from the factory. We were only discussing it as neither of us had ever seen another or any documentation about them existing... but there it was!

It's one of those things that could be a 'Friday afternoon special' for some unknown reason but nobody would ever believe it, and you'd constantly have people telling you that it was wrong. That said, do it to your own tastes, regardless of what others may think.

Hard to be 100% sure of the complete Innocenti history and oddities regularly come to light.
Adam_Winstone
 
Posts: 1179
Joined: Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:52 pm

Re: Factory Colour

Postby shamrockexpress » Fri Nov 01, 2024 3:55 pm

i had a 68 sx150 in maroon with no signs of any other paint ever being applied........was told that bosses and workers buying a scooter would have had a word with painters and done 1 offs and odditys i suppose like any working enviornment when the boss aint looking nudge nudge wink wink,,,,,,
shamrockexpress
 
Posts: 122
Joined: Sun May 03, 2020 9:38 am


Return to Anorak's Corner

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 4 guests