Mike Packwood

Here we are on a 4 day break to Vienna and very nice it was too. In a nutshell, apart from sausages, it featured: Flak towers, dinner at the top of the revolving TV tower (not a patch on Berlins tower), a whirl on the British built and worlds oldest big wheel featured in the 1949 classic 'The Third Man' and a visit to the utterly amazing Lippizzan horses- who you're not allowed to take pictures of unfortunately but if you get the chance are not to be missed.

Here's the latest addition to the family and officially 'my new hobby! 121KNP is a 1962 Lambretta LI150. He's lived his entire life in Worcestershire with three previous owners all of whom lived within a mile of two of each other. Despite appearances it runs, starts and stops. But really its not at all bad considering its just been pulled out of a shed where its been sat since 1973! Lovers of patina will doubtless say 'leave it as it is' and I do understand....but it's already too late. The process of smartening him up has already begun. (But I do need to find a way of preserving that sticker you can see in the second picture which he's been proudly wearing since he was first sold in April 1962. by the dealer who is still there and now sells Yamahas The reason I bought this one? Well he's the same age as me and is exactly the same model as the first ever vehicle I bought when I was 17, 40 years ago. That one cost £35. This one considerably more!