Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Toward the first Vespa 1884-1946:
• Behind the Vespa
• The shape of innovation
• From helicopters to scooters
• Debury on a shaky stage
• MP6
• Vespa 98
• A car on two wheels 1946-1956:
• From the factories to the countryside
• The city, the factory, the men
• Leisure time in easy monthly installments
• Neck and neck: Vespa and Lambretta
• Like wasps in flight
• Vespa in the USA
• Vespa 125 (1948)
• Vespa 125 U (1953)
• Vesoa 150 GS (1955)
• Italian Style 1956-1963:
• The millionth Vespa
• Get Vespa'd!
• Cul de Sac
• Under other skies
• Cinema and divas
• Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic
• Vespa 125 (1958)
• Vespa 160 GS (1962)
• Vespa 180 SS (1964)
• .... and A Vespa for Peter Pan 1963-1976:
• Twenty years later
• No license plate
• Scooters and mutants
• On a razor's edge
• Whoever Vespas by Lara-Vinca Masini
• Why Vespa ends in "a"
• Three return tickets to Pontedera by Athos Bigongiali
• Clouds on the horizon
• Vespa 50 (1963)
• Vespa 90 SS (1965)
• Vespa ET3 (1976)
• A splendid forty-year-old 1976-1996:
• The balancing act
• The PX years
• The four corners of the world
• A good recovery but...
• A Vespa called "Cosa" ["Thing"]
• The road to India
• The cultural project by Tommaso Fanfani
• The Nineties: a new page?
• Vespa PX (1977)
• Vespa PK (1983)
• Talk of the town 1996-2003:
• New fledglings for the 50th year
• A new Vespa over the sea...
• Urban Insects by Bill Buford
• ... and for the rest of the world
• Inside and outisde the net
• Vespa is design and function
• Something new has come back
• Vespa ET4 (1996)
• Vespa Granturismo (2003)
• Catalog by Giorgio Notari
• Vintage Vespa Registry
• Vespa Clubs in the world
• Bibliography
• Index of names
• Photographic references