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Found a link to a VB1 restoration blog:

http://classicgarage.net/VB1Vespa/index.html

I don't know that I can get with the final color choice, but it's a halfway decent resto blog I hadn't seen before...

FWIW.
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i cired when i read that. the original paint was beautiful (i bet it even had some of the original stickers). personally, i think the guy ruined it. now it's just like every other reprayed vb1.
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+1

If that was the original paint, then the respray is more than dubious! I thought it was a prior restoration/non original paint?
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ah, that would make sense. i hope it was a respray of a respray.
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From the blog: "The guys at Scooter Market told me the bike had been fully restored about 10 years ago but had been sitting unused in a garage for the last couple of years."

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andrea, you have to remember that i have a short attention span and can't be bothered to actually READ the blog

also, thanks for offering to help me out with the excel spreadsheet thing. my wife ended up being able to figure it out.
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