GTS OWNERS CLUB

tafsc · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:16 pm Post subject: DTC REPLICA

Not too sure how to add pictures here?

BIG RAB · Joined: 03 Nov 2007 Posts: 2 Location: NORN IRON

very nice mate first sceen your gts at the IOW an inspiraation to us all. Cool

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smirnoff · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:14 am Post subject:

Hi Simon, how are ya, have you had the little misshap repaired then?

To post pictures : http://gtsownersclub.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=180
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rainham boy · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:16 pm Post subject:

hi & welcome Very Happy

tafsc · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject: thanks

Yeah got dent knocked out, filled and re sprayed. Brilliant job done in Barnsley and I can’t even see where it once was.

Thanks for the pictures tip.
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tafsc · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject: TEST

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tafsc · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject: TEST

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tafsc · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:29 pm Post subject: GTS

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tafsc · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject: ,l

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tafsc · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject: v

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Innocenti · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject:

nice one

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tafsc · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:11 pm Post subject: g

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Nyle · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject: Re: GTS

tafsc · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: dtc

The flower is the white rose of Yorkshire. The paint scheme is DTC “Down Town Custom” A company that use to specialise in custom scooters, based in Leeds, Yorkshire hence the rose.

The red white and blue was commissioned by ray kemp of AF Rayspeed, formerly an employee of the famous Arthur Francis, The Scooter Club Rose Bianca from Leeds used to race for AF Rayspeed and all of their machines where red white and blue DTC race liveries. There where about 15 scooters at one time with this paint scheme during the eighties and I only know of one true surviving one all be it in extremely bad condition.

Macca was the painter at DTC and he was also responsible for some rather eye catching custom scooters such as “Sign of the snake”

DTC was my favourite custom scooter and far beyond the reach of my youthful pay packet, as soon as I got my GTS I treated my self to replicating this eighties iconic paint scheme.

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tafsc · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject: ll

Well they say that you can't polish a turd and no matter which way I looked at the new Vespa 250 GTS IE I could not get my head past the "it aint a GP" phase!, but I still wanted one!!

The spec sheet and performance just can not be beaten by any steel framed scooter that links in with our Scootering way of life. For years I have treating my GP to every trick part available, 37 modifications in the last 15 years! That's not even including a Suzuki 225 stage 6 conversion and a steel linered TS1 kit straight from the race track! Now don't get me wrong, I aint ever getting rid of my GP, but my days of thrashing down to The IOW sat on a Snetterton seat wearing a Flight Jacket and Deck Shoes are over! My 45 year old body will sadly not take it any more Sad

It is also said that a Lambretta, if correctly set up and maintained, will be as reliable as a Vespa. Hands up who believe that?

fat chicks

Now comes along this new scooter, ok it's an auto and I must admit this made me feel as uncomfortable as my last prostate exam!
The GTS is kinda like the fat chick of scootering, always there with a friendly smile and a great personality and the added bonus of a great blow job!!! Brillliannnnnnnnnnntttttttttt! Fat chicks are pretty as well, ok ok I know some of you will need convincing so what we need is make up!

polishing the turd

Not long after getting the Scooter home I decided that an extreme make over was needed. Now the hard part, to choose a paint theme, my first choice was "Coca cola" but that didn't last long.
I then remembered Craig Ballantyne telling me how he had just built his dream, an Arthur Francis Replica, and that got me thinking. DTC By Macca was my favorite custom paint job and the first Street racer I can remember seeing. Also as DTC was an eighties icon what better to mix "Old School" with "New School"

OK there will be some scratching their heads as to what is it, there will even be some who think its a Domino's Pizza Scooter! But the bike is for me!

The next stage was to research the paint, a couple of DTC replicas had got it wrong and I was determined to get as much aesthetically correct as possible. The main problem was to transplant a paint theme from a full bodied GP onto my ugly ducking.

Simon and Jane at Scoot Graphics where approached and I was extremely impressed by their professionalism, Simon knows his stuff and is a perfectionist. The original DTC design was based around the AF Rayspeed racing colors and I wanted this "morphing" into our AFSC logo.

Scoot Graphics rose to the challenge and for those who remember DTC, they will see how spot on the metamorphism is.

It was now time to find a painter capable of transplanting an idea into reality, Rüdiger Giesen who works at Reiner Brenner of Brüggen was commissioned, he relished the idea of getting away from doing crash damaged cars and he was truly exited about the project.

The whole process was meticulously done so that all of the DTC dimensions and pattern would be followed whenever the Vespa allowed, when the Lambretta line could not be followed, Rüdi came up with the solutions that worked.

The "Micky Mouse" mirrors have been removed and the gaping holes left from the stems have been blanked off and smoothed. The back rack was the next thing to go! Luckily, unlike the GT model, the rack does not need to be cut off!! The seat has been recovered to break down the shape and coordinate with the paint work.

I collected the finished scooter yesterday and I am over the moon! I know some will not like it, some won't get it, but I love it! I will always remember the look on Craig's face when a lad was heard to remark, "Who is Arthur Francis?" And for those who want to slate it because its an auto.... well I have pushed GP's further than most have ridden Vespas!
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