Scoot! Magazine features Manny’s Lammy

Scoot! Magazine — America’s No. 1 scooter magazine — recently featured the the custom-built Manny Pacquiao scooter in its April 2010 issue.  Wawel Mercado, president of the Vespa Club of the Philippines, tells the story below how the publication got wind of the project.  Also included in this blog post are hi-res scans of the three-page feature which consists of a Q & A interview with Elmer Reyes of the Laguna Choppers who custom-built the scooter.  Read on….

The attention that the Vespa Club of the Philippines generated for “Manny’s Lammy” in the local scene and in the world wide web last January 2010 led to a call sometime in February 2010 from San Diego, California-based Scoot! Magazine to Elmer Reyes, the artist behind the custom motorcycle shop Laguna Choppers.

The Vespa Club had visited Elmer in mid January 2010 on rumors that he was building a Pacquaio-themed Lambretta. We were not disappointed. Consequently, the photos we posted on Vespinoy were picked up by the top motorcycle blogs in the country: Bimbo Isidro’s Motorcycle Philippines (MCP) and Abet Rana’s Who Rides a Vespa? The excitement around the scoot consequently led the Vespa Club to organize a scooter unveiling at Eastwood City together with the country’s foremost mod band Juan Pablo Dream.

Scoot! wanted to feature Elmer’s latest creation in their magazine. So an interview was arranged, and photos of the custom painted Lambretta was requested. Fortunately, Vespa Club of the Philippines Ride Director Tops Marin had just visited Laguna Choppers in January 2010 at the inaugural ride of the Vespa Club of the Philippines, and had lots of good photos to share with Scoot! Tops generously agreed to support Elmer by giving him access to his photos, and sent his images by email to Scoot! Anything for a scooter buddy!

The feature on this proudly Philippine made scooter came out in Scoot! Magazine’s April issue, and now we can finally read the article and see the gorgeous pictures once again.

To our brother Elmer Reyes: You make us proud to be Pinoy scooterists, dude! This may just be the first scooter in the Philippines to be featured in Scoot! And our hats off too to Tops Marin, for his generosity in sharing his photos, and the great achievement of seeing his photos published in an international scoot magazine.

Scoot! Magazine is North America’s #1 Magazine for Vintage and Modern Motorscooters. Scoot! is an 80-page full-color, bi-monthly magazine dedicated to the appreciation of vintage and modern motorscooters. Scoot! is available throughout the US and Canada with distribution also in the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Australia, Sweden and Vietnam.

Click on the thumbnails below to read the 3-page Scoot! Magazine article.