Bike Trader
| Quadrophenia scooter fetches £36,000 | 02 December 2008 |
 The 1967 Lambretta ridden by Jimmy in the 1979 cult film Quadrophenia fetched a £36,000 at Bonhams Entertainment sale in Knightsbridge. Lambretta scooters, together with the rival Vespa, mobilised a generation of Italians in the immediate post-war years. Scooters would eventually surpass their strictly utilitarian origins to become an integral part of British youth culture in the 1960s as favourite transport of the fashion-conscious 'Modernists', or 'Mods'. Quadrophenia was inspired by The Who's double album of the same name. Phil Daniels' character, James 'Jimmy'' Cooper, rode the Lambretta Li 150 Series 3. After filming finished, the 'Jimmy Bike' was sold to scooter dealers Rafferty Newman and put on display in the window of their shop in Portsmouth. It was later sold and used on the road, before being left to rot in the garden of a quiet suburb. The iconic scooter was restored in 1995. Since then it has gone on to win various concours awards. When Quadrophenia was re-released in January 1997, the Li 150 attended the premiere in Brighton where it was reunited with Phil Daniels and other members of the original cast. Later that same year the 'Jimmy Bike' was used for filming at The Who's Quadrophenia concert in Hyde Park, London and on location in Brighton. Page 1 | |
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