[Leica] OT - motor scooters

[phong at doan-ltd.com (Phong)]

Not being a current or even recent Vespa owner
(I left my Vespa in Saigon in '75 :-) ),   I have
no relevant experience to share. I just want to 
say that Vespa is really the ne plus retro.  
There is a resurgence of refurbished Vespas
(and Lambrettas)  in  Vietnam, restoring units 
from 30, 40 years ago.  I understand that there 
are entrepreneurs who import them to the US.
Perhaps my own Vespa from 30 years ago
is now riding the streets of San Franciso :-)

During the French colonial years,  there was a very
active Vespa Club of Indochina.  And of course
today, there are Vespa clubs all over the world.

- Phong





Oliver wrote:
> Since we seem to have experts or at least opinions on any subject, would
> recent and/or current owners of Vespas or other motor scooters 
> care to share
> good and bad experiences with their vehicles? I haven't used one 
> since 1949
> or thereabouts. They seem to proliferate in San Francisco of late and can
> even go up the steeper hills nowadays.
> TIA, Oliver Bryk