Vespa Project

[JimVonBaden]

Picked up a 1981 Vespa P125X converted to a P200X a while back for $700. It runs and rides, but skips out of gear.



The plan is to strip it down to nothing, blast and powder coat/paint everything, reseal the motor, replace some gears, replace all the wiring, new wheels and tires, and all new cables. Basically make it new.









Lots of travel, vacation to Alaska, knee surgery, and Halloween, and I am finally restarting the project with a teardown.

Halloween:



Teardown:














Overall very easy, except I dropped the headlight and broke it, so I am on the hunt for a replacement.

Jim

[jskene]

This looks like a fun restoration!

I think you should have a glass of Chianti after each day of toil on it. Also, watch "A Roman Holiday" at least once.

[JimVonBaden]

This looks like a fun restoration!

I think you should have a glass of Chianti after each day of toil on it. Also, watch "A Roman Holiday" at least once.

LOL Definitely. My wife loves that movie! (So do i!)

Jim

[RocketMan]

So whatever happened with this project? Love to see the finished project. My first ride was on the back of a Vespa in 1964 thru the streets of Hong Kong and the first two wheeler I learned to ride was also a Vespa that belonged to our family driver in Bangkok. Love to have a vintage scooter for shits and grins again some day.
RM

[JimVonBaden]

So whatever happened with this project? Love to see the finished project. My first ride was on the back of a Vespa in 1964 thru the streets of Hong Kong and the first two wheeler I learned to ride was also a Vespa that belonged to our family driver in Bangkok. Love to have a vintage scooter for shits and grins again some day.
RM

I put it on the back burner so I could get my workshop built, then the R1100RS fell into my lap. I am saving it for the fall, then I will be back on it.

Jim

[JimVonBaden]

It gets worse before it gets better.