The frame came from a neighbor in 2020. She has a popular antiques business and she travels for picking (Vespa frame was found in a PA barn), while the rest of the project -- including the motor -- are from two other VBBs I pulled out of barns and storage lockers.
Everything I'm using is original Piaggio VBB: cowls, mudguard, headset & tubes, fork/front hub, front & rear light assemblies, all switches & hardware, yada yada, with body bits being the stock '60s Max Meyer blue, just needing TLC and a whole ton of it!
The frame was resprayed xx?? years ago with metallic blue paint, but the old robin's egg blue color was hiding underneath.
I have some prior restoration experience, since my current rider is a different original-paint VBB, with mildly tuned 177cc Pinasco kit, which I built from the frame up last year (no thread for that one, unforch...).
This current project here is my 6th engine build and 2nd complete scooter resto down to every nut, bolt and grommet.
But some tasks, such as the scope of body work/+ weld repairs, stripping spray paint off the frame, priming and blending new touch up paint in to fade with the original color, and restoring the floor rails and installing (NOS) rubber, are kinda new to me.
For the motor, headset and fork/hub, I'm keeping the build stock where possible and using decent new consumables, ya know: Italian wiring harness, points & condenser, new Mazzucchelli crank, bearings, kickstart gear, and cables & new stock style exhaust. I bought new 8" wheels 'cause I didn't have 2 good originals left anymore.
Cylinder and piston are Piaggio 150cc, but it's going to be dome piston not deflector, and I honed the cylinder walls and am replacing the rings. STock dell'orto 20/17c for this VBB.
Here is my starting point and then some of the tasks I've finished (and I'll add photos as I'm able):
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