1973 150 super 

Original UK registered (Cambridgeshire reg) 

Regd 150 

Solid but by no means mint , NOT a 'nammer,  is an original British sold Vespa.

Last year of the original Primavera type headset with round lamp

10" wheels conversion 

NOS rally 200 fork and mudguard (nos when I fitted it 25 years ago) 

Quick+reliable PX200 engine in a NOS casing 

12hp barrel ,T5 4th cog and new sip road 2 exhaust. Cosa clutch. 

Viton main seal and blue corteco flywheel side seal. 

Standard 24mm carb slight upjet to 122 for exhaust.

2% /50:1 oil self mix. 

Bright halogen PXMY style headlamp and bright yellow halogen spot. 

Quite well patinated which is on trend luckily 😄

I bought this in Cambridgeshire in 1997 and it was all original save some of the paint . I sold the original 150 super motor, wheels and hubs and set about converting it to 10" wheels and a PX200 engine. 

Engineer friend welded a new floor in (before you could easily get them) and it is galvanised steel and still solid . 

I have some 8"super wheels spare that I was going to convert it back with one day. 

I welded a discreet scaffold eye in

underneath to get a lock through. Steering lock works also and key present.  

Over the years it was my rally and workhorse up until about 2005, often riding it to nationals and abroad,  had a tuned T5 motor,  a sidecar for a while and steadily became sidelined by other scooters and vehicles but I've kept it out of nostalgia if anything. About 10 years ago (and about 3000 miles at most) I rebuilt a PX200 engine into a NOS casing with a sip 12hp barrel. 

The scooter runs nice and true and doesn't wobble if you remove hands from bars. 

There's a big pic of it in Sticky's fairly recent 2018 "Scooterboys" book too.

In the last 5 years I went to work on it a couple of times and one fast trip to the last scooter weekender in Antwerp where I had been on it many times. 

During the lockdowns I oiled it up and tucked it under a dust blanket and just turned the motor over now and then while I was and am using other scooters. 

It's never liked speedos and the latest one mileometer works but the needle doesn't.  I have a new spare indian rally 200 face one and some knackered ones for repair or disdain. 

It's a faithful and nippy vespa that is on the road ready to go that will take serious distance in its stride and it's time for it to get a new chapter in its story I think .