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Here’s to the first quarter million hits! CHEERS!

18. September 2006

Well, it’s a bit pre-mature (par for the course in my book, hehe), but 20 hits from now we will have reached a pretty big milestone. Also, ninety-two posts from now we’ll make our 1,000th post at TheScooterScoop. I hope the next quarter million hits and thousand posts are as fun as these have been. […]

Vespa restoration. Only the hardcore need apply.

18. September 2006

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This sad shot looks comes from a fabulous photographer, Alberto, in Italy. It looks like a war photo. Google translates his comment as: One old Vespa by now destroyed from the salt air of sea and the harsh sun of the island of Levanzo, in an ancient village of fishermen abandoned. So… see anything salvageable? […]

"Scootering grows up" or "Why are people plastic-haters?"

17. September 2006

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Whoa! An article that tries to explain the cliquishness of classic riders. It’s cool to see the St.Paul Pioneer Press allowing Laura Yuen to get a little deeper than the standard “People love scooters” stories you normally see. So, why DON’T plastic riders get the time-of-day at some meet-ups? Well, in some ways I suppose […]

Off topic: Before we had CGI we had really good drivers

16. September 2006

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SteelCitysFinest.com says: ISUZU GEMINI Commercial from the 80′s This is actually a combination of several ads for the 1985-1989 Isuzu Gemini that are put together. The talent it takes to perform some of the driving is phenomenal. Obviously no digital special effects were used in the making of this video.

Doodlebug celebrates 60 years (like Vespa but with a smaller cake)

16. September 2006

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(see here is the deluxe 3 wheeled model. You get a finished repro for about $3200, if you got that kinda bank) If you wanna help eat the cake and ice cream, head over to Webster City, Iowa and check out this article from The Messenger in Fort Dodge, Iowa to get the birthday scoop: […]

Tiny post: So many scooter mags so little money

16. September 2006

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If you thought ScooterWorld, Scootering, TAG, Scoot Quarterly and Scooter Rider were the only scooter mags check out this site with 36 others (including a cover from a classic issue of 2StrokeBuzz before it was an e-zine). Many of them are classic and may no long be published… but it’s cool to see the variety. […]