In the May/June 2023 edition of ScooterNova magazine (#37) we featured a 1963 German specification Vespa 50 that had been imported in to the UK when new by a Polish lady named Elizabeth Smolen. The late Elizabeth Smolen had escaped from Poland to the west during the 1950s and after arriving in this country set … Continue reading Historic Vespa 50 Back Under The Hammer
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Have you ordered your new scooter magazine yet? Edition 50 (July/August '25) is hitting the presses this weekend. Order your copy by clicking here and be one of the first to receive number 50 in the post!
For the Piaggio Group, it was motorcycles that took centre stage at the 2023 Eicma Show in Milan today. But the smallframe Vespa range did get a minor makeover with some new colours and technology too. Their press release begins: “Milan, 7 November 2023 - The Piaggio Group attends EICMA having consolidated its position as … Continue reading Updated Vespa Scooters at the Eicma Show in Milan
We’ve been out and about recently photographing a number of interesting scooters to feature in forthcoming editions of ScooterNova magazine. Two of those are small frame Vespas, both with interesting tales to tell and also coming up for auction this week. The oldest is a 1964 Vespa 50S that was originally imported and sold in … Continue reading Rare Vespas in ScooterNova and under the hammer
British scooter company Scomadi have had to alter their range plans after Piaggio have apparently stopped supplying engines outside of their own group of companies. This means that the Scomadi 300, which was to be powered by the same Piaggio 4-stroke automatic scooter engine as used in their own Vespa GTS 300, is no … Continue reading Scomadi 300, no. Scomadi 200, yes!
