Le Mans Street Racer Bridging The Gulf

One that numbers among the few is the 1971 film Le Mans, starring Steve McQueen. In box-office terms it was a disaster, however, over time, Le Mans, which features footage from the 1970 Le Mans 24-Hour race has become something of a cult classic. Vince Lunn has been riding scooters since his early teens in his native Nottinghamshire. During the halcyon scooterboy era of the 80s and beyond he relocated to the deep south west, riding with ISCA in Exeter to rallies all across the UK. Although Vince is now based back home in Notts, he remains a life member of ISCA. When the call went out to crowd fund the development of the Scomadi 200, Vince got on board early on, eventually becoming an owner of one of the first 100 FP200 Scomadi scooters to arrive in the UK. Vince’s other interests, outside of scooters and the scooter scene, include motor racing and just about every film the king of cool, Steve McQueen, and has appeared in.

This includes Le Mans, which for Vince is something of a double-bubble: a movie with motor racing providing the main subject, including on-track footage of an actual endurance race plus Steve McQueen in the starring lead role, and, at times, literally in the driving seat. After taking delivery of his FP200 Scomadi following a two-year wait, Vince hatched an idea of a theme around which he wanted to customise his new steed.

Go, go, go!

One problem Vince had to overcome was budget-related. Like the majority of us scooterists, he had plenty of dreams, plans and aspirations, but he knew that realising them to their full potential would probably require a budget beyond his means. Before taking a look at how Vince’s custom Scomadi evolved, a brief rewind to his earlier days on the scooter scene: “I’ve had no end of scooters over the years, one was