VESPA 300 GTS SUPER TECH HPE Executive conveyance
GIVEN THE FASHIONABLE IMAGE of Vespas today, it’s hard to believe that they were initially designed for workers to get around bombed-out Italian cities after World War II, and inspired by a paratrooper’s scooter.
Who knows, if Enrico Piaggio had laid eyes on one of the more-or-less standard motorcycles being used by the Allies, he might have commissioned Corradino D’Ascanio to create a very different ‘Vespa’ which would then, of course, not have been called a Vespa because it wouldn’t have looked like a wasp.
But it was one of
