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A Word About Our Scooter Restorations
Steve's Hot Rod P200. 'Ole '55
Bio-Diesel Vespa
Patrick's Lambretta Chopper
Rob Volz's Lambretta TV 200

Ptown Scooters Restorations:

This is what you can expect when you ask to have your scooter restored. The best thing to do is bring your bike in and talk to us about what you want. Want the best scooter restoration? Come see us!

Prices range from around $3,500 to $6,000 depending on your model, and the condition it is in when we start the work.

For Example: If you bring us a scooter that runs, has all its bodywork, and it really only requires new paint and parts, a basic engine rebuild, then the price can be $3,500 - $4,000. However; if you have a Vespa GS 160 with panels missing, a frozen engine, and a general overall sorry shape, you can expect to pay more. A GS160 is worth that kind of money and time. A 1964 Allstate is probably not.

You cannot do ANY stage of the restoration. There is a reason for this. We don't want to undo your mistakes, and we think you don't want to pay us to undo your mistakes.

Stage 1:

Dismantling
Your scooter is stripped down to its component pieces: bodywork, engine, forks, and other parts. This is a pure Labor charge. On average, it takes 8 hours to do all this. On older, rusted or bodged scooters, this time can double, or even triple.
 

Shop Labor Rate: $68/hour

$544+

Stage 2:

Media Blasting

We have your scooter body work bead blasted down to bare metal, so that the painters have the best possible surface to start bodywork and paint on.

Subcontracted Labor:

$225

Stage 3:

Painting

Painted to your color choice, and also to fit your budget, we use several painters to handle all types of jobs:

If your restored scooter is intended to be driven alot and don't want to pay through the nose for paintwork that will end up getting scratched. We have a painter for this.

If your restoration is going to be used sparingly, and you want it to gleam with pride in your garage or living room. We also have a painter for that.

Subcontracted Labor:

$800 - $3,000

Stage 4:

Engine Rebuild

While your scooter is being painted, we are rebuilding your engine.

We've done it all from, "just get it running" to all-out-performance-insanity. Want it in good driving order? We can do that. Want it to dust everything in site at the Vegas Rally? We can do that too.

We work with specialty houses from all over the world. Tell us what you'd like to have your scooter do and we'll align you with the best performance piston, crankshaft, carburetor, clutch and exhaust for your situation.

Engine Rebuild Cost:

$450 - $4,000

Stage 5:

Powder Coating

We have forks, stands, stand brackets, wheel rims, hubs, swing arms and more powder coated back to the original silver/aluminum color. Powder coating is a much stronger, longer lasting finish which will help the exposed parts of your scooter last longer

Subcontracted Labor:

$200 on average
Stage 6:

Polishing/Chroming		 While the painters and powder coaters are busy, we can send out your metal bits to be polished and/or chromed. Polishing is the cheaper, more original way to go (especially for aluminum items) but we can chrome anything you want as well (hubs, wheel rims, etc). Items like Panel Levers, Switch Housings, Hand levers, Choke Knobs, Fuel Rods and Fender Crests are polished to a nice shine. Subcontracted Labor:

$100 - $200 (ave.)
Stage 7:

New Parts Installation		 This is arguably the hardest section to average out a price for. This is the replacement of all wearable parts of your scooter, which is the key to making the scooter look new. EVERYTHING that is worn or old is replaced.

This includes but is not limited to: Cables, Wiring Loom, Rubber Grommets, Tires, Inner Tubes, Brakes, Switches, Switch Covers, Seat Covers, Seat Frames, taillights, Headlights, Speedometer Face and Lens, Floor Channels, Endcaps, Locks and so on.

This is the section where a huge price variable is to be expected, as every scooter is treated differently and each requires a unique list of replacement parts. 		Price:

$500 to $3,500+ depending on Model

Stage 8:

Final Assembly

Once the painted frame and body parts are back, the engine is built, and the powder coating and polishing are back in the shop, we can start the assembly of your scooter. This is very labor intensive.

This includes running new cables and a wiring loom, rebuilding the forks, installing the engine, installing new floor channel kit, installing forks, and so on.

This is also the most important aspect of the restoration.

We have undone so many poorly assembled restorations we have lost count. We do it right the first time. We are experts in Vespas & Lambrettas, and we know where everything goes. No incorrectly routed cables, no speaker wire wiring looms. No soda cans are harmed during the restoration of your scooter.

Labor Rate $68/hour Hours: 20 to 40 Job:

$1,360 to $2,720

Steve's 'Ole '55:

So what the hell is tucked away under that pretty paint you ask?

Update 05/10/06: "The 5-speed transmission failed horribly. Went to an EFL P200 unit (4-speed modern transmission)." - Steve

  • Polini 208cc top end
  • Banded, reinforced Cosa clutch
  • T5 front forks with Grimeca disc kit
  • HP4 lightened flywheel
  • Clauss Studios urethane engine mounts
  • 30 mil round slide Dellorto carb
  • SIP wide tire kit
  • EFL P200 4-speed Transmission
  • SIP EVO 2001 exhaust
  • SIP floor kit
  • Malossi mainfold
  • Custom drop bars made by Tim Bridges in Eugene
  • Custom Black-on-Black flame job by Daniel Hund
  • Bitubo shocks

 

Genius at rest.

Dan (body & paint).

Steve's very cool Super Stealth Sidecover.
Now You See It...

Look closely for the Black Ghost Flames.
Now You Don't!!!

How about a Ram-Air Scoop?

You know you want one!

Bio-Diesel Vespa Project:

Loren Fennell of the Oregon Bio-Diesel Workshop LLC called-up PTown a couple of months ago wanting to know if we'd be interested in trying to get a Vespa to run on his mixture of bio-diesel. Patrick thought it would be pretty cool to give that a whirl. In early April '05, Loren came by the shop with his mixing jars, notepad and cans of fuel ready for round one. "Smells like chicken" was heard around our shop numerous times as the engine was fired-up, another of Loren's mix ratios scribbled down, adjustments made to the jetting; it's an ongoing project but we're pretty sure that Patrick's knowledge of the two-stroke engine and Loren's ever expanding list of fuel mixtures will turn-up a viable bio-diesel powered Vespa.

The Magic Elixir?
Notice the use of protective safety equipment.
Thank you sir, may I have another?
Checking the exhaust temp. after a burn trial.
 
This is why they call it a "test".
 

Patrick's Lambretta Chopper:

"Why would you chop up a Lambretta frame?" I think the assumption this Spring Scoot 11 participant was making is that Patrick started with a "good" frame. I don't think that was the case. I recall our friend Peter Dixon beaming when he popped into the shop to drop off his freshly welded front forks. Long was all that came to my mind. And hard - the bicycle seat Patrick had mounted to the bike when he roared into the parking lot at Prescott Park for the sat. bbq at SS11, well I think he went through a tube or 2 of Prep-H that weekend.

 
 
Where's the kickstand on this thing?!!
 



RV's Lambretta TV 200: