Description
8th Dec, 2024 10:00
The December 2024 Auction
1956 Lambretta LD150
Only 4, 000 made
Estimate
£3, 000 - £3, 500
Buyer's premium: 15. 00%
Lot details
Registration: FSU 209
Frame: 150LD176139
Odometer: 11. 157
MOT: Exempt
Low mileage example
Part of a private collection
Not many of these built
V5
Original owner’s book
The Lambretta 150 LD was only built for 18 months, totalling 4, 000 units mostly for the foreign market. While a stock Lambretta sometimes lacked panache, ‘mods’ of 1960s Britain began to gussy up their scooters in the 1950s. Innocenti marketed extras for the LD including chrome trim pieces, extra driving lights, a clock, fuel gauge and radio. With all these accessories, Lambretta was marketed as the “sports car on two wheels.” Mods wouldn’t settle for the ordinary; they raided hardware stores for any lights, flags, or mirrors they could bolt on to their scooters. With the abundance of extra lights, these embellishments required other battery systems to be installed. Paul Newman, Princess Grace Kelly, James Dean, Debbi Reynolds, Richard Burton, Jayne Mansfield, Dean Martin, Cameron Diaz and Claudia Schiffer all rode Lambrettas.
