Description
For sale by Auction 25th March 12pm
1960 Lambretta 150Li, 150cc. Registration number 520 XVK (non transferrable). Frame number 150LI 860451. Engine number 150LI 860968.
Sold with the V5C, bound photographic record of the restoration and other paperwork. It should only require gentle recommissioning for road use.
Manufactured by the Italian industrial giant Innocenti, the Lambretta scooter gained widespread acceptance in the 1950s, its cleanliness and convenience in particular appealing to those who regarded the true motorcycle with suspicion. Following the unreliable TV 175 Series 1, Lambretta went back to the drawing board to create one of its all-time greats: the Li. The Li was built as either a 125 or 150 using the bore/ stroke dimensions of the preceding 'D' Series, producing 5. 2hp and 6. 5bhp respectively, while its new engine in over-bored form found its way into the revamped TV 175 Series 2 in 1959. The Li range was restyled along similar lines at the same time, with headlamp nacelle and faired-in handlebars, thus establishing the definitive Lambretta look that would endure until Italian production ceased in 1971.
XVK has been subject to a full photographic restoration between March and June 2020 by G. Sawyer of Tyne and Wear. He bought it from Lambretta Finder in Belgium in February 2020 as a project machine, it comes with full dating certificate from the British Lambretta Archive confirming matching numbers, there are also photographs of two Italian tax discs from 1971 and 1974.
Once completed it was sold to our vendor in the July, he has not used it, dry storing it in his collection and now has decided he wishes to upgrade to an SX.
Sold with the V5C, bound photographic record of the restoration and other paperwork. It should only require gentle recommissioning for road use.
