It'll be great to see it restored to its original days. Let me know if you need any help with information or original pictures for your project. Thankfully the mounting holes were still on the side panel when I got the bike. The night stick on the side I got from a New York antique store. The white is the original Lambretta paint code for the time. It's the same paint code used for their 1960's green police vehicles. I was able to find all the parts needed to make it out of the pictures before I found the boxed original. The windshield is not difficult to reproduce. I was able to obtain a lot of articles and images from the NYPD museum archives, plus things like the proper Spare Tire Holders and windshield from the son of a retired NYPD mechanic who used to fix them back then. The Spanish version was imported later and painted the blue and white. They were made during the italian factory strike and therefore made out of parts laying around. As you may already know, you can identify them by the unusual Vin # which goes past the VIN # we see for those models in those years. It took me a couple of years getting info on the Lambrettas imported for the NYPD. Please feel to reach out if you need some information regarding the restoration. I am trying to keep a post opened on the LCUSA forum with regards to a restoration project of an NYPD Lambretta Special by Lee Smith.
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