Vespa Scooter Restorations : Restored Vespas

British Vespa 90SS racer Tony O’Brien has a new website up and running, with lots of great info and insights into racing a vespa scooter around Europe.

Tony races, maintains the Vespa himself, see an extract from his history page below, click for more info. http://www.green-hornet.co.uk

An extract of Tony’s race history is below, click through to the green hornet site for more useful info on his Tuned Vespa 90 SS.

It all started back in 1985 for me watching the race scooters at Donington that made me catch the bug. After attending many meetings the following year as a spectator I started making attempts to buy the rare Vespa 90 Super Sprint.  After some help from a spectator (i’m sure his name was Dave) who called me to say he’d found one,checked it for me and although it needed tlc it was perfect for racing…..click here for more

vespa video i found today, it’s in Spanish, shame i can’t speak it, the whole thing looks so interesting, enjoy this clip of lots of guys flying around on smallframes and falling off..!!!

Coming Soon Feb 2010

We have been lucky enough to find a beautiful vespa primavera, fantastic original condition and at a very reasonable price, the transaction is still in process but we are hopefull that we could be in possesion of the vespa mid february.

Because the scooter is in such good condition the plan is to blast the frame back to metal and full re-paint, some new prts that are needed and restored back to standard as much as possible, really looking forward to this one, keep checking back for more info.