1968 Lambretta SX200

ex Paul Weller’s own scooter

Estimate: £19,000 - £21,000*

Reg No: PNV 814F Frame No: 847329

CC: 198 Engine No: 847658

MOT: Exempt

• Large history file confirming provenance

• British registered from new

• V5C for use on UK roads

Some may regard the SX200 to be the finest scooter Innocenti produced, and Paul Weller to be the finest singer-songwriter to grace the pop charts. Famed as front man of The Jam, then The Style Council and then several incarnations as a solo artist, ‘The Modfather’ is a legend and this lot falling into the ‘cool’ category to boot.

Bought by himself in 1991, at the time Paul Weller was working on his second solo album. He saw this one in The Scooter Shop in Woking. It has featured in several private ‘behind the scenes’ photographs and in his biography. It also features on the inside cover of his second solo album ‘Wildwood’ and he can be seen riding three up with drummer Steve White and bassist Marco Nelson. Most famously, it can also be seen in the official pop video for ‘Friday Street’ where Paul Weller is seen riding it. He very kindly donated it to the Sun newspaper campaign in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust in 2002. It did, however, go to auction once again, very soon after in the Christies pop memorabilia auction a year later on April 30th, 2003. It then appeared for sale online and was snapped up by a genuine Weller fan and kept in a collection for almost 20 years.

A large amount of memorabilia and provenance documents accompany this lot including:

• Scootering Magazine from January 1992 with Paul and the scooter on the front cover and exclusive article inside with Paul explaining why he bought the scooter

• A picture of him at The Scooter Shop in Woking where he bought it

• Old Blue V5 with Paul’s real name on the log book and the date he bought it

• The biographical book by Paolo Hewitt ‘Days Lose Their Names and Time Slips By’ with a double page of Paul and his son and friend on the scooter at their home

• Copy of Scootering magazine from May, 2000, with an interview with Paul explaining that he would never sell his White SX200

• Copy of press from The Sun newspaper as they praise him for donating the scooter to their Teenage cancer Trust campaign

• Full correspondence from Christies auctioneers from when it was included in their pop memorabilia sale in 2003. Lot information and auction tag