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    DAN BURTON'S Vespa primavera isolation rebuild ‘Senza Targa Senza patente’.

    Oct 20, 2020 7 minutes
    Big Chris

    The Vespa smallframe first appeared In 1963; It was the last machine to be designed by the Plagglo lngegnere ( engineer) Corradino D' Ascanlo, the 'father of the Vespa'.

    Piaggio pitched this new Vespa at the younger market as it was light and manageable and could also be ridden legally in Italy at the age of 14 without the requirement for a registration plate , or even the need for a driving licence .

    This may well have been the case and all legal and above board in the narrow, sun-drenched back streets of the Tuscan hillside towns , but I don 't think it was ever supposed to be a Piaggio marketing slogan aimed at young lads and a few lasses, bobbing and weaving their way through the mucky wet roads of Leeds , Barnsley and Wakefield in the late 1970s/early 1980s .

    But since that time the Vespa smallframe scooter has been the entrant machine and a rite of passage for many a British teenager with the humble Vespa 50 (or at least registered as a 50) being the starting point of a young scooterist's journey into a lifelong obsession with Italian tin two-wheelers .

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