Modern Vespa

that Stella is a deal and a half right there!

I'd be on that like white on rice in a snow storm!

On that Allstate.. I meant "could be in the territory" with some haggling and if you actually had two OG hubcaps. Keeping in mind those hubcaps could easily be worth a couple hundred ducats.

That's just my speed too. If it was a runner and cheaper. Even if I had to split the cases to freshen it up. If it's running, it has potential.

Now, that's a deal.

That's a good deal

Deal. P200 engine. $550
https://www.scootnet2.net/index.php?do=showone&id=483

one of those is a stella motor.

but 5ish for a complete P2 lump is market. figure a carb, carb box, a flywheel, and cases would get you most of the way there. all the rest is gravy.

^^ Agreed, that Stella is more like it. I did not want to knock anyone down with my last post, but some of these prices ae getting a little crazy. But anything will sell at the right price, the rest will just sit for months on end.

Yeah, I don't disagree with your assessment of the Allstate, I just posted it because it was so similar to the restored one above.

If it was local, not 14 hours one way from my house I'd go with cash in my pocket, easy fixes.

That was a good idea to put it up for comparison, My comment, however was probably a little out of line and surely not directed at you. My apologies.

Oh no need, no offense taken. I totally got what you were saying.

If I hadn't just verbally committed on two scooters, you'd get there in time to help me load it up before I drove away with it

/dying

good to know we're all just as bad as each other.

That's what friends are for!

I saw another robin egg blue Stella and thought, I wonder if Rachel would figure out I had two if same color.

that's why I stick to red and black bikes...

also, don't ever clean the shop up. the war department gets suspicious!

One advantage I have on this front is that while my wife is basically supportive in principle of my having a hobby that doesn't involve disappearing all day to drink with friends like golf, she doesn't like the reality of it. She avoids coming out to my workshop most of the time, regardless of its level of mess. Like "texts me when she's sitting on the porch fifty feet away" avoids.

For example, when I showed her the orange paint on the VBB over the weekend, she said, "Where's the blue scooter?" despite my having told her and showed her the progress multiple times up to this point.

And I'm not above using that to my advantage from time to time...

In the past, if I picked up an extra scoot, I would wedge it in the corner some where and if she asked, I would reply "it's just parts". After awhile, she would remark, "you probably have enough parts here to build 2 or 3 more", and I would say, "wow honey , you know you are probably right".

Technically, they're *all* "Just parts." Now we're discussing how fully-assembled they are.

Clean


https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/1915350002187531?media_id=0&ref=share_attachment

what makes a bike, a bike? is it just a frame? or does it need to be a roller?

is a white horse white?

Putting on my Legal Hat (it's not a real Legal Hat because I'm not a lawyer, but I do deal in small details on a regular basis), I'd say that the Frame is what makes the bike the bike since that's what has the VIN on it. Kind've like the serial # on a lower receiver body. Everything else is just replacement parts.

In jurisdictions that also care about engine #'s, it'd be the combination of Frame+Motor, and in places like the UK, Germany, and that hard-to-spell upside-down place with all the cute-but-poisonous animals, it seems to be basically the entire parts manifest.

Good M16/AR15 reference. You shoot?

Not any more.

Nice running Allstate $2300 Chicago

https://www.scootnet2.net/index.php?do=showone&id=496

That's VPFalcon's Allstate, so it'd be nice to keep it in the MV family.

Ahaha!! nice! Its looks awesome. OG paint, nice simple upgrades to make for a reliable safe rider. Totally good deal IMHO. Someone scoop it!

a hearty +1 on this and GL's assessment

clean, OG, tagged titled and ready to go for two and change is all day errryyy dayyy

he did a great job on it, did he say why he's selling? yes, someone keep it in the mv family!

I can't say for sure, but he usually only has one or two in his fleet and sells them along to fund the next project.

good, hopefully he's not quitting, he's not said much of late

He's around, just mostly lurking I think.

I would scoop VP's Allstate in a heartbeat, its honestly ideal for anyone looking for an 8" ready to roll.

if he quits I call dibs on the T5

^^^second dibs on the T5 when Greasy quits...

I'll take greasy's t5 when he gets that one…

I'll take just about anything and everything. Greasy or clean, the GeekLion Den accepts all.

https://scootnet2.net/index.php?do=showone&id=499

while not a screaming deal, I think at 3 this would be quite decent.

you get a lo miles clean bike with a sensible upgrade.

granted you *could* buy a clapped out 125/150 or a Stella for like half that and then dump a smooth G into it but getting there would be fun, if you're into that sort of thing.

but 3 for something that's tagged, titled and ready to go. get on and ride and clean as shit. sign me up.