Along with such important questions like “How did we get here?” and “How was the universe formed?” - “What is the perfect Vespa touring engine?” is a question that has taxed the world’s most brilliant minds for decades..

A VVC member friend has signed up for this 24 hour event taking place 10-11th September.

Last week I visited Retrospective Scooters in London to view their, just received, latest batch of vintage Vespas imported from the United States.

The latest hot spell and humid nights have allowed for some pleasant writing, nothing salacious as this post’s title may suggest, just me writing content for the next VVC JOURNAL.

You can now view the full set of 35mm film photos I took, plus one or two phone shots, of ‘Doodlebug’, the cover star Vespa of VVC JOURNAL No.86 (spring 2021).

Bill and Helen Gaskins wrote to me after reading the tribute to Jet Whittle in the latest VVC JOURNAL.

Coming soon to the JOURNAL is the story of ‘Doodlebug’ - a lovely 1954 Douglas Model G, belonging to VVC member, Michael Parkes.

Owen Evans has acquired more period literature for his Vespa 400 and kindly sent me scans.

I was recently contacted by club member, Ken Morris, to say he was having a clear out of all his old scooter literature and would I be interested…. er yes!!

The latest issue of the JOURNAL has now been posted out to all members and will hopefully offer you all some welcome light relief from the lockdown.

New Zealand VVC member, Andrew Ross, shared an excellent article with me for the recent spring issue (No.82) of the Journal.

It happens to the best of us and I’m no exception - typos and inaccurate information that is.

ScooterNova magazine’s creator and editor is a VVC member and asked if he could share the Ape feature in his publication. What with ScooterNova’s larger A4 scale and additional space, the answer was always going to be a “yes”!

Auro Meotto, sent me these images he took of his copy of Motor Cycling, dated March 15th 1951 - a review of the first Douglas Vespa.

This feature was originally printed in the 2019 winter JOURNAL (No.81). I'm duplicating it here on the VVC website News Page but with added photos supplied by Roger that I couldn't squeeze into the magazine due to space restrictions..

Patrick Albregts is one of the club’s very few US members and as you can see is what you could call a serious collector!

On a recent visit to VVC member, Darren Bradbury in East London, I got a good look at the latest additions to his impressive collection of classic, vintage scooters.

Being packaged and posted as I write this - No.81 winter issue of the JOURNAL is on its way to Veteran Vespa Club members.

… is Issue No.81 of the VVC JOURNAL of course! Winging its way to the printers, ready for distribution/posting out to VVC members at the end of next week.

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