We’ve been out and about recently photographing a number of interesting scooters to feature in forthcoming editions of ScooterNova magazine. Two of those are small frame Vespas, both with interesting tales to tell and also coming up for auction this week. The oldest is a 1964 Vespa 50S that was originally imported and sold in … Continue reading Rare Vespas in ScooterNova and under the hammer
If you're in the market for a new classic scooter, or fancy treating yourself to something a little special, you might want to get along to the Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham tomorrow for the next H&H Classic Motorcycles auction. It has 49 scooters in total up for grabs, mostly Lambrettas and Vespa but a couple … Continue reading More Rare Classic Scooters at Auction
Regular readers of ScooterNova magazine may have noticed in the latest edition an advert for a specialist scooter auction. Coincidentally in the same magazine we featured a rather rare scooter that will be for sale at the same event… Over the years I’ve seen numerous car and motorcycle specialist auctions dabble in selling … Continue reading Rare scooters for sale at specialist auction
H&H Classics have started 2022 by launching a brand-new sale category this week – bespoke Classic Scooter auctions. The first specialist sale of classic scooters takes place at the National Motorcycle Museum on April 6th and will offer what H&H claim will be, "the most comprehensive range of classic scooters sold at auction in the … Continue reading Classic Scooter Auctions with H&H
It may surprise some to learn that motor-scooters not only existed before the stylish post-WW2 Italian Lambretta and Vespa machines, but that there was a small but flourishing British scooter industry producing them too. In 1920, the Coventry-based Kenilworth was one of half a dozen or so scooters you could buy in the UK, alongside … Continue reading Rare 1920s British scooters and barn-find Lambretta GT200 for sale
Here in Great Britain we’re lucky to have the Lambretta Museum in Weston-super-Mare, offering an example of every scooter Innocenti produced from Model A to GP, as well as Lambrettas from further afield such as France, Germany, Spain and India too. It’s a great place to visit, whether in Weston for a rally or a … Continue reading Collection of Rare Scooters For Sale
