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TYCO : YPVS Yambretta

You couldn’t wish to meet a more unassuming and friendly individual than Tony Holland. Tony got his first scooter, an Li 150 Series 2, when he was 16, and it was simply used as transport to get to work. “The scooter was hand-painted, still with points, but I thought it was great,” said Tony. At the time he was an apprentice in the steel industry and little did he know then that the engineering skills he would develop through his apprenticeship would come into play later in life and help him build and develop his current scooter.

Starting the build

The Lambretta section of the build started life as a non-running

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