Lambretta LI Series

The Lambretta LI Series was the long-lived Innocenti scooter family of 125 and 150 cc machines with a four-speed gearbox, which the British Lambretta Archive says set the template from 1957 while the timeline of models dates Series 1 from 1958. Series 2 followed in 1959, Series 3 in 1961 and Series 4 in 1967, and the line ran to 1968. The LI Series 3 became the best known: the character Jimmy in the film Quadrophenia rode a Li 150 Series 3, and mods in Britain adopted it. The American retailer Montgomery Ward imported the Li125 and sold it by catalogue under the Riverside brand, and in India a licence to build the Li150 Series 2 produced scooters that carried the Lambretta name until about 1976.