The Clubman Vespa

Whether it was a creative owner or an enterprising dealer that first started customising their scooter will never be known, but all too soon scooter dealers had latched on to the fact that many riders wanted a machine that was not only their own, but was immediately identifiable as being that of a certain rider.

One early exponent of this style was Northampton-based Andre Baldet, who is reputed to have taken inspiration from scooters that he had seen on the Continent. Seeing a marketing opportunity, he brought