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Post by w650 on Apr 22, 2017 12:09:25 GMT -5
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Post by retrorider on Apr 22, 2017 13:30:23 GMT -5
I want one! Why ... I don't know, but I want one!
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Post by cookees on Apr 23, 2017 13:13:30 GMT -5
Sure would make rush hour fun.
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Post by spandi on Apr 23, 2017 17:39:23 GMT -5
It kind of reminds one of when Fiona Volpe riding a BSA A65L Lighting motorcycle, equipped with rocket launchers, blows two bad guys (chasing 007 in a car) to smithereens in Thunderball!
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Post by rockynv on Apr 23, 2017 18:14:49 GMT -5
Really needed to be stopped and on the center stand to fire in an emergency however not really designed to be able to hold up to that use for long. Intention was to mount the gun on its tripod for firing. Did prove the monochassis design as a sturdy reliable one.
Family in Italy tell me the Lambretta was better suited to the three wheel truck conversions with the largest having a bigger payload than most American Full Sized pickup trucks but the skeletal frame on them did not lend them as well to this type of modification.
Counsins outside of Naples in the Tiano area have a marble/stone yard and still deliver their marble into the smaller towns using the Lambretta three wheeled scooter trucks since they can get closer to the job sites (right to the door) than the larger vehicles which have to have the loads transfered near the destination and then loaded into the Lambretta or into a push cart in order to complete the delivery. Not much fun to hand load/unload a few tons of marble multiple times in that area in the dead of summer.
A lot of history from the two Italian scooter giants that is getting lost as the old timers pass. At least the internet is saving some of it and making it available to more generations.
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