The Diary of a 1964 Li150 Series 3 Rebuild
(Not a Nut & Bolt restoration)

Sunday 1st June 2003.
I get to view a 1964 Series 3 150 Lambretta for sale. It's in a sad state, but my mind was made up, I'm buying it. A handshake seals the deal and the chap kindly offers to deliver the scooter to my house.

Monday 2nd June 2003. On a glorious, sunny summers day the Lambretta arrives. It takes pride of place on the patio which, for the meantime will be my work place.		Thursday 5th June 2003 Started work on the scooter. Stripping the legshields, front mudguard and horncasting, which are too far gone and need replacing.

Friday 6th June 2003
Not much done today except deciding on seating and trying to decide on a colour scheme. I've decided to use the two seats that came with the scooter. They need new springs, shot blasting and covers.

Monday 9th June 2003
Continued to strip the frame. Everything's done except for the toolbox lid and rear brake pedal.

	Tuesday 10th June 2003 Finally got the frame stripped. Gave it a wee wash...that didn't help much, but the milk crates look far better.

Monday 23rd June 2003
Waiting to get the frame back from the shotblaster. Stripped the forks today. They and a couple of other parts need shotblasting. Good planning there...not.

	Friday 27th June 2003 Picked up the scooter today. It's been shotblasted & primed. All the parts will need prepared for painting.

 

Monday 18th August 2003
Still ongoing with the restoration, As I don't have the money to get everything done at once. It's just going to take time. I've been picking up a few pieces. I've got to get rear runner boards and a few bits shotblasted before I get the spray job done.

Thursday 25th September 2003
Got runner boards and a rear light. Now to look for somebody to do the spray job......

	May 16th 2004 Finally got the Li back from the sprayer.

 

May 23rd 2004 Put some bits together		May 23rd 2004 Put some more bits together, just to see what it looks like.

 

February 2nd 2005 Finally, a year and a half later and after some delays, the LI 150 is all but finished. The Scooter needs an MOT (booked for Monday) & registering. There's plenty of things that aren't right and some things will be corrected, but that's for another time. I'm just glad it's done.

February 7th 2005
Today it Passed the MOT.