Harriet the ET3 Primavera

Starting on a new project for my wife, She agreeing to learn to ride a shifting vintage scooter, we bought her a 1979 ET3 Primavera out of Long Beach CA. 

First picture of Harriet

Finding the Vespa on Tuesday August 24 on Scoot.net. After talking with Bo Anderson we agreed on the price and that Friday, Braden my son and I headed out for the long drive from Salt Lake City, Utah. We started at 8pm and drove straight through until the morning, taking turns sleeping every 4 hours. Checking into Facebook along the way to show our location to those at home following our journey. Arriving at 5 am, before the set meeting time of noon. We drove to the nearest Home Depot and crashed for 3 hours in their parking lot, awaking to a bustling noise which turn out to be a work for hire pick up location. Rubbing the sleep out of my eyes, I got up and went into the store to buy some tie down straps that I had forgot the night before. Then it was off to find a local beach restaurant to get breakfast. Upon finding a suitable spot I woke up Braden and we had a most excellent breakfast.

A mean surfers breakfast

At noon we had to wake up Bo, having been up most of the night before, at a friends Mexican wedding he was not too with it, finally getting the scooter started I took it for a test drive. It ran a little rough but was a great little small frame for Angie's first scooter.

The frame seemed to be bent, I called Josh the scooter guru back home, we figured the sum of the parts he had installed on the scooter it would still be a good buy.

Stopping to make sure the scooter was not shifting

Then the fun began, Bo in his drunken stupor could not find the title. He looked for over an hour, not wanting to buy the scooter without it we ended up following him to AAA. (In California they can do almost the same things as the DMV.) 

Bo Anderson waiting for our turn at AAA (DMV services)

Proving that he was the rightful owner, nevertheless to obtain a new title would take 2 + weeks. Paying Bo a 100 dollars less then the agreed price to insure he would send the for mentioned title and getting a letter of intent from the AAA we were finally on our way.