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Full Circle Blue Moon

Rarity of a blue moon in technical terms, according to most astrological sources, refers to two full moons in one calendar month. Which actually occurs around every 32 months, once every three years or so. Innocenti’s Lui is one of the models in the Lambretta Luna line; Luna, of course, is Italian for the moon. Gerard James has a custom Lui 140 in dark blue livery, which loosely equates to his pride and joy being something of a blue ‘moon’. He originally bought his Lui CL when he was 21 or 22 years old during the early 80s. Although he acquired it with good intentions, other priorities were more pressing, which meant Gerard’s Vega spent a while, waiting patiently, on the proverbial back-burner. Some 30 years in fact. Even after the project actually began, due to

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