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Post by potatopl on Sept 22, 2016 10:47:40 GMT
Hi all! I've recently got a T5 Classic frame from my mate, sadly without the engine and documents. Looks like it was brought from insurance company sellout(it surely had an accident  ). I might try to restore and register it in the future as a historical vehicle, but I need to know something more about the model. I know T5 Classic were made for British and Irish markets, but it's hard to find any more informations about them on the web. I am mainly interested in the production time (from/till which year it was manufactured). The name plate does not contain the year of production, it only has the VIN number VNX5T 0385$$ - do you know when it was produced? Thanks for help! |
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Post by triffid on Sept 22, 2016 11:58:15 GMT
Sadly, without a T5 engine it is just another PX.
Try Scooterhelp.com but you will need to put in the whole frame number
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Post by Juan on Sept 22, 2016 19:07:32 GMT
Purely from my crap memory the Pole Position ran from 85-90 or 91, therefor the Classic will have started around 91 or 92 and ran through until 99/2000. The last batch was the Millenium and came with a disc frontend in a crap cream/beige colour. Which colour is it? May help narrow it down a little.
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Post by potatopl on Sept 22, 2016 19:53:31 GMT
Sadly, without a T5 engine it is just another PX. Try Scooterhelp.com but you will need to put in the whole frame number I know it and I don't mind, as I got it really cheap and only want to bring it back to the roads. In Poland, to register it as a Historical/Veteran Vehicle it needs to be over 25 years old and the model should be out of production for at least 15 years. You also need to bring the documentation with technical specification, model history and photos. I've already tried scooterhelp, www.vespa.name/vin-number and SIP catalogue without success. What I found out, is that the frame prefix VNX5T is the same for T5 Pole Position (square headlamp) and T5 Classic (PX lookalike). The Pole Position was manufactured between 85-93 (85-90 for Elestart Models), and the last frame numbers in 1993 were 37589 (elestart models had 30***** frame numbers - 7 characters). Mine is definitely not an elestart (no battery, 3 pin regulator, no button on the headset). Frame number 385** looks like a continuation of Pole Position numbering, it might be one of the first 1000 models produced, so I suppose it comes from the first or second year of production. But that is all I've figured out till now. Purely from my crap memory the Pole Position ran from 85-90 or 91, therefor the Classic will have started around 91 or 92 and ran through until 99/2000. The last batch was the Millenium and came with a disc frontend in a crap cream/beige colour. Which colour is it? May help narrow it down a little. Color is a deep blue metallic. I don't know the exact code color but I'd guess it's Blu spazio 7005M, as both T5 Pole Position and PX Lusso came in this color. |
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Post by Juan on Sept 22, 2016 21:03:18 GMT
Well you're certainly okay on the out of production part and I can remember the deep metallic blue from the mid 90's as my brothers mate Dave Spud had one probably somewhere around 94 or 95. Can't remember seeing a new one later than that. Mine was a 96 and black, there was a nice candy apple metallic red around the same time. Primrose yellow and metallic green were maybe the 97 colours along with black and silver. Both lovely and very rare. Trying to think of others but drawing a blank for the time being.
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Post by potatopl on Sept 23, 2016 5:14:59 GMT
I've found this one in ebay archive: 1994 Vespa T5 125 ClassicMine looks the same color (but I don't think its Blu Spazio). As visible on the photo VIN 037660, so this must be one of the first batch produced. |
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). I might try to restore and register it in the future as a historical vehicle, but I need to know something more about the model. I know T5 Classic were made for British and Irish markets, but it's hard to find any more informations about them on the web. I am mainly interested in the production time (from/till which year it was manufactured). The name plate does not contain the year of production, it only has the VIN number VNX5T 0385$$ - do you know when it was produced?
