DOWN TOWN Where All The Lights Are Bright...

Along with the Armandos Special Vespa, the DTC street racer Lambretta was the ultimate street scooter for many young, rally-going Scooterboys to both lust after and aspire to. They were designed and created by Brendan ‘Maca’ McNally with his business partner Dave Barnett at their Leeds-based custom scooter paintwork business. What became DTC Rosa Bianca livery was based on Maca’s own racing Lambretta, which itself came about when the Rosa Bianca scooter racing team formed, from out of Leeds Central. All team members’ race machines were treated to a similar paint design. From this, demand grew for it to be replicated on street racer scooters from the mid-80s onwards. More than 40 replicas, each individually numbered, were produced, painted by Maca