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Parky’s Garage

Hi Dan and clan, what a belter; the July issue of . Great to see your article, ‘Stan the Motul man’… just round the corner from the Chantry Chapel in Wakefield where Stan’s Vespa is photographed is Ings Road, the home for many years of Parkinson’s or Parky’s as everyone knew it. A lot of scooters were sold out of Parkinson’s back then (I worked there from leaving school 1967-69). New scooters would regularly be handed over on Friday afternoon in standard trim to inexperienced owners, only to return not long after on the back of the Parky J4 pick-up festooned with mirrors, car hub caps, air horns etc. with the forks bent under the footboards after a weekend Scarborough ‘prang’. We got quite good at straightening forks on the

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