The Lambretta Chair
I found a set of leg shields on trade me for a series 1 or 2 Lambretta from a guy in Christchurch. They aren’t in mint condition but could probably be restored if someone spent a lot of time and money on them.
I had seen a few other Vespa scooter leg shields converted into chairs and I thought why not do something with these?
The Vespa chairs are quite common and can be sourced from all over the world, however there aren’t really a lot of options for a Lambretta chair.
I had my crappy old original computer seat and some spare bits of custom wood lying around the workshop so after a measure up and cutting a hole in the leg shields, I put it all together to make sure it was going to work and then disassembled it to start painting.
I had a can of black exhaust paint and another one of silver so just brought some masking tape and got painting. It only took a day or two to get it together and was pretty straight forward as long as you remembered to measure twice cut once.
While it does the job of a seat it’s not overly comfortable and at the end of the day, It’s still as crappy a seat as it was before, but now having a nice black and silver paint job and sports a Lambretta Li 150 badge on it.
Eventually I may be able to collect enough parts for a complete Lambretta scooter…
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