Vespa Engine Tuning
Once the engine is out of your scooter you’ve opened a Pandora’s Box of potential maintenance and upgrade projects
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Heinkel engine and rebuilding
Vespa Re-Restoration
When it comes to two wheels it’s not “all Heinkel, all the time” at TDW! I got my start in scooters with a 1964 Vespa, and right now I’m rehabilitating my first scooter after it fell into the clutches of Peromyscus leucopus: What could be so bad about a scooter become a mouse hotel? Mice […]
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The Heinkel Engine “Hall of Shame”
Over 13 years of Heinkel ownership I’ve accumulated a number of engines; people have given then to me, I’ve found them in various places, or people have told me about them and I purchased them. There are a surprising number of engines out there in the USA, especially considering that maybe only a few hundred total […]
Continue reading The Heinkel Engine “Hall of Shame”A December to Dismember
It’s amazing what you discover when you tear apart engines I couldn’t resist riffing off of the Lexus commercials we have ad nauseam in the US this time of year! In my case I’m working on engines. I’ve decided to restore my other Heinkel car (known charitably around here as “the rusty hulk”), which you’ll […]
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