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Part one: who is Casa Lambretta?

Casa Lambretta what founded in 1980 by Vittorio Tessera in order to improve the spare parts supply for the Lambretta. At that time, even in Italy, the Lambretta scooter was considered as a stepchild, but today, almost forty years later, the Lambretta is more popular than ever and the Casa Lambretta now has a wide range of spare parts for the Lambretta, from the model A to the 200, you can find almost everything in our Casa Lambretta shop.

 

 

The most important spare parts supplier worldwide

However, Casa Lambretta is much more than -probably- the main supplier of spare parts for Lambretta. But we'll tell you about that next time.

Casa Lambretta is in Rodano, a small village of the metropolitan area of ​​Milan, not far away from the airport of Linate and about 15 minutes from the Centro Studi and the former Innocenti factory. 

This is Vittorio's homeland and this is one of the reasons why he decided to devote himself to the Lambretta. Vittorio tells us:

"First of all I'd like to say that I don't make any preferences, I like all scooters: Vespa, ISO, Lambretta, Moto Guzzi, Gilera. All of them are a precious and beautiful witness of a time from which we still have a lot to learn. Anyway, for organizational reasons I had to decide in which sector I could focus. And since this region is also the homeland of the Lambretta, I decided to devote myself to the Lambretta."Vittorio Tessera, Casa Lambretta

Casa Lambretta moved to the current premises in 2010. Shortly after their move we visited them before the Italian summer break in order to get in a supply of spare parts and to help Julia buy her first Lambretta, a beautiful SX 150 (see article here).

Made in Italy:

Meanwhile Vittorio's 800 square meter premises include his spare parts warehouse, The workshop for his three restorers, Mario, Maurizio and Fabio (permanent employees of the company) and his new office. 95% of the Casa Lambretta spare parts are made in Italy. The small percentage of parts bought in addition is labeled with an A which states the origin (Asia) of the product. Vittorio's wife, Orietta, is responsible for the orders placed by the Casa Lambretta concessionaires.

Museo Scooter & Lambretta

On the floor above the premises there's the Scooter & Lambretta museum. We have already written about it Casa Lambretta museum, but we'll report again about the museum, its history and exhibits.

Casa Lambretta concessionaire for Germany

Since the Eurolambretta 2003 Scooter Center is Casa Lambretta concessionaire for Germany and we still like to remember how we, together with our friends Roberto Graupner and Markus Fröschen, successfully concluded the deal with Vittorio in Assisi. From a mere business relationship and the love for the Lambretta we developed a long and close friendship.

Casa Lambretta shop

Casa Lambretta spare parts are available in our shop.

Casa Lambretta catalog

In occasion of the Eurolambretta which took place this year in Spain Vittorio presented his spare parts catalog 2018.

Here you can download the catalog as PDF file or you can just order it in our online shop.

 

All Casa Lambretta spare parts

If you're looking for spare parts which we still don't have in our online shop, please send us an email to lambretta@scooter-center.com and we'll try to provide them as soon as possible.

The story goes on ...

In the next articles we want to show you with a couple of examples of the improved quality of the Casa Lambretta items. We'd also like to tell you more about the museum and its exhibits as well as the firs years of company's activity. In particular we'd like to report about how Vittorio managed to save in time important documents as well as scooters from the factory.

Get around betta, the Lambretta!

Plan / drawing for baseboards original Innocenti Lambretta

Casa Lambretta footboard strip sets Li family

The supply of spare parts for the Lambretta is probably better today than it has been for fifty years. The range of parts from various manufacturers is getting bigger and more colorful.

We remember with horror the supply of spare parts at the time we did it Scooter Center Started in 1992. Even if the parts did fit, the gray tones of the rubber parts of a series 3, for example, changed from whitish yellow to anthracite. Supplying series 1 and 2 parts was hard to imagine.

We are Casa Lambretta dealers for Germany

Scooter Center Team with Vittorio Tessera

Fortunately, we have been since the beginning of the new millennium Casa Lambretta dealer for Germany. A nice report on the history of Victor Tessera and Casa Lambretta can be found in the November and December 2017 issue of Scootering. The report is currently also available online:

https://www.scootering.com/scootering-classics-story-of-vittorio-tessera/

There is an outline of the history of Casa Lambretta, which began in 1979/80. So not that long after the end of production of the dl / GP series. The parallel between Vittorio's experiences with Lambretta in the early days and those of the Lambretta drivers in the early nineties is particularly beautiful. Where a minority had to acquire a thick skin to justify the Lambretta. But we seem to digress ...

Actually, it's about the step rails from Casa Lambretta for the Li family. Let's do it chronologically.

Lambretta TV 175 Series 1

It's very easy for the TV 175 Series 1. For the top model from Innocenti, which was built around 10.000 times between 1957 and 1958, there is the

Lambretta LI series 1

With the Li series 1 there is a distinction between the 125 cc and the 150 cc models. The Li 125 comes with continuous aluminum strips at the front and the gray plastic strips on the running boards:

The Li 150 Series 1 has aluminum strips at the front, into which rubber tread strips are inserted and which are closed off by the tread strip end pieces:

Lambretta LI & TV Series 2

After more than 150.000 series 1 Lambrettas have been built, the series 2 is the successor. The solution for the gradation of the models by - among other things - the step rails is retained. The TV 175 Series 2 gets the same floor strips and end pieces as the Li 150.

Lambretta LI series 3

With the Series 3 it's very easy. Here, all models get the same set of steps made of plastic in gray, paired with inner aluminum strips with rubber inlay and step rail end pieces as a finishing touch:

Lambretta dl/GP

In the case of the dl / GP series, in addition to the color - black instead of gray - only the design of the treadboard end pieces and of course the specific lengths at the front for the other leg shield of the dl / GP compared to series 3 changes:

Built according to original Innocenti plans

Plan / drawing for baseboards original Innocenti Lambretta

The nice thing about the Casa Lambretta parts is next to that excellent quality the fact that many parts after the original Innocenti drawings are manufactured. The correct mounting material is included in the scope of delivery.

Made with original tools

Machine / tool for baseboards original Innocenti Lambretta

In the case of the plastic step strips for Series 3, the attention to detail can go a little further. They are cast on the original tools by one of the original manufacturers for Innocenti. So they correspond exactly to the original in every aspect. Also with regard to the corrugation on the top. An advantage that should not be underestimated for an accurate restoration.

Philip
Scooter Center

Lambretta seat covers from Casa Lambretta

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