Modern Vespa

Yeah...the guy who paints the scoots also does all the welding and bodywork for me.

BUT

My birthday is coming up ( halloween ) and i asked the wife if i could get a used mig welder setup for my b-day, so i can learn how to weld. I want to practice learning how to fill holes and such, buy some scrap steel that's the
same gauge as a vespa frame, and spend my time drilling and filling
and grinding holes to make them
right.





















I want to see how much work on this frame i can do myself... partly as a learning experience, and
partly to save money. Also, i know
what needs to be straight and
what needs to be bent better than
Rodney does... he's a great body +
paint man, but he's no vespa
expert, and he nearly hammered
out the curved areas of the
floorboards on my GS because he
didn't know that the GS was the
only vespa that actually had bowl-
shaped floorboards. He had only
ever done flat ones ( like the SS
).