VESPA ITALIAN STREET STYLE
Published by Piaggio; Scriptum Editions
in 2003
ISBN: 1902686322
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VESPA ITALIAN STREET STYLE
Stock no. 2112528
Circa.
2003.
Softcover.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition.
The untold story of the Vespa, from Piaggio's Historical Archives and the most renowned models comes this unique tale. Large format. Pictorial card wraps. Colour and b/w photos. ISBN: 1902686322. 2nd printing. A little edge-creasing and textblock slightly grubby.
Front cover
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