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Hi All,
I have acquired a K reg gp 125 in Turquoise and on flatting the toolbox lid I’ve gone through to
what looks like original Ochre so rubbed a bit of frame also not sure, would it have been originally Ochre
from factory ?

I don't think the GP125 was produced in Ochre??? Turqoise... Yes.
Could it be that you have rubbed back to reveal an etching primer (yellow)?

I also think the GP125 was never manufactured in ochre. Our website says white or turquoise. But as said many times never say never.

My understanding also ………..my First scooter was brand New from a Lambretta Dealers showroom …..either white or Turquoise …i went for Turquoise …reg .JXD 7K ……
Funny enough after owning it a year i had an accident the Dealer had it for months…when I questioned why so long……they told me they couldn’t get Turquoise ………so ended up accepting them re spraying Yellow Ochre ………

late spring 1969 125dl
in original untouched white

under the white theres turquoise paint on the horncasting - wonder if it was overpainted white as they had too many blue?

Not that I know of, however, I've never seen documentation relating to ochre DL150 in ochre either... but many, many years ago I was chatting to the guys at Cambridge Lambretta and they said that they'd had a 150 import in that appeared to be original ochre from the factory. We were only discussing it as neither of us had ever seen another or any documentation about them existing... but there it was!

It's one of those things that could be a 'Friday afternoon special' for some unknown reason but nobody would ever believe it, and you'd constantly have people telling you that it was wrong. That said, do it to your own tastes, regardless of what others may think.

Hard to be 100% sure of the complete Innocenti history and oddities regularly come to light.

i had a 68 sx150 in maroon with no signs of any other paint ever being applied........was told that bosses and workers buying a scooter would have had a word with painters and done 1 offs and odditys i suppose like any working enviornment when the boss aint looking nudge nudge wink wink,,,,,,