Category: Back When We Had Hair

Vespas resting amongst the rocks may provide some strange images – but there’s nothing stranger than what took place in South West Africa (in what’s now known as Namibia) during 1968. The words of Julius

PUBLISHING BYGONES Scooter & Scooterist magazine       Between September 1973 and August 1987, it was down to one magazine to keep the scooterist scene up to date with everything that was going on in

This is a picture of myself, Nick Williams (left) and mate Geoff Cox; we were members of the Kettering Scooter and Light Car Cub around 1959. We had just won the Camberley Lucky Seven Plate

A young, prospective future scooter rider puts the BSA Sunbeam under close scrutiny at the 1958 Earls Court Motorcycle & Scooter Show Picture courtesy of Mortons Archive (www.mortonsarchive.com)  

                Here’s a picture from the 1959 National Scooter Rally, which appears to show the judging for the concours event taking place on the field. The far left

                  Here’s an old photo of me and my mate, Roy Brook, with my first Lambretta; the picture was taken around 1979/1980-ish. I paid £20 for it

I saw a picture of Paul and Pauline of the Bridlington 59ers on the front cover of Classic Scooterist and quickly turning to page 32 brought back very happy memories of my time with the