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Andy, I've heard about you and your spotty Byker Estate mates. I wanted to have a car with some rubber left on the tyres so had you of offered before I collected it I would have declined. You heard anything about my missing Vespa yet on the twoking grapevine?
Karl, it was the PH Tunnel Run – a lot of TVRs, Vipers, Vettes, Chevys, Ferraris, Nobles, Porsches, an Ultima, Lotus, Renault Spider and a ....Clio. Pictures here: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topi ... &f=158&h=0
Oh my God. What are they teaching in schools these days?
Italian for 'wasp' the Vespa helped mobilise Italy and Europe after World War 2. The design brief was to produce a simple, robust and affordable vehicle – easy to drive for both men and women, able to carry a passenger, and not get the driver's clothes dirty.
All those Peugeot Speedfights and Italjet Dragsters are just modern takes on something that was completely revolutionary at the time.
Enrico Piaggio, the man who's idea the Vespa was
Corradino D'Ascanio, the helecopter designer who designed the Vespa (left). On the Right is the legendary F1 driver Manuel Fangio
Pop princess J-Lo and a Vespa
That's one homework assignment for next year sorted!
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