My friend David tools around Philly on one of these bad boys (albeit an orange one), and man have I been salivating over this one on eBay. Hot damn.
‘Tis the season to be buying less gas, right?
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May 7th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
that one is totally sweet. i love to double seats. let’s start a gang!
May 8th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Definitely the time for less gas….and that one is soooooooo awesome.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Freakin’ awesome!
May 12th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Wow. Definitely want.
May 16th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
It looks nice, but the location reveals that under all that shiny chrome and paint is a deathtrap. Southeast Asian Vespas are HUGE no-nos. People will fix them to “just good enough” condition, slap a new coat of paint, and lots of chrome parts and try and sell them to gullible Americans. When you try and drive it and find that half the body is Bondo, and the engine’s piston was replaced with a bean tin, you’ll want your money back, but they’ll be in another country!
Trust me, as a long-time scooter enthusiast, buy one from someone you know, where you can get the history of the bike. Mine looks like a mad-maxian creation, but I know the engine runs strong, and everything works the way it should.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
@Chris - you make a good point. I probably wouldn’t buy a bike from Vietnam on eBay. But I would love to have a bike like this. I find it supremely annoying that classy bikes like this aren’t made any longer.
May 16th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
The Genuine Scooter company still makes Vespa clones. They’re very well made, and look pretty classy (a bit boxier than the older scoots). It’s called the Stella
Oh, and one note about the decreased gas usage… Yes, they get close to 100 miles per gallon, but they’re 2-stroke, meaning they burn oil with the gas, and that means their carbon footprint is huge.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I don’t see gas prices going down anytime in my lifetime (call me a pessimist) so scooters will just increase in popularity. Several friends have ditched their gas guzzlers for the scooting lifestyle.
June 29th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Oddly enough, the same pictures have been posted on a recent philly craigslist ad…I smell a scam.
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/mcy/737107594.html
June 29th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Huh, that’s strange. Maybe someone ripped off the photo from my blog? Looks like that post has been flagged now, tho. That scooter is in Vietnam, btw.