I’ve been chatting to a guy in Toronto that has bought out a Canadian dealer of a bunch of Vespa Ape parts. He’s a nice guy. Here’s what he had to say:
“I have lots of Ape parts. To be more specific the parts are for late 70’s and early 80’s mainly for the P400v P501,P601,P2 [...]

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The employees have a snow day, but Gene and I were in work for a short while this morning. We got some stuff done, then had to make a run to the Post Office. We had extreme difficulty getting the short way there, and even more getting back to the shop, so as the snow [...]

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All the weather reports are forecasting a big snow storm for tomorrow, Wednesday 10th February 2010, possibly going into Thursday as well. It looks like road conditions may be OK in the morning, but deteriorating throughout the day.
Right now, we’re planning to try and open, with just Gene and I manning the phones but [...]

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Bunches of stuff marked down, and some nice parts up for auction. We’re adding more everyday.
Take a look:

Scooterso on Ebay

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Scooters Originali is hosting a scooter swap meet on Saturday March 20th 2010 at our shop at 50 South Center Street, Unit 6, Orange NJ 07050, from 11am till whenever.
Bring all those parts you’ve had hanging around in your garage for ever, and swap them with other people, or sell them to get the money [...]

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Last year was the flattest year we’ve had in about 10 years. We’ve watched long standing motorcycle dealers in our area, go out of business. It was a nerve wracking year!
So when we got the chance to move back into our old unit in this complex, lovely Unit 6, we jumped at the chance.
Yeah, its [...]

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There’s a book coming out soon that looks like it has some really neat, historical images that include Vespa and Lambretta scooters. The book was originally relased in 1959 and to celebrate the book’s 50th anniversary The Aperture Foundation has revised and will be republishing it.
From the publisher’s web page  “In 1956, a 28–year [...]

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A fair few years back Gene and his scooter, and a few other people appeared in music videos for some different bands.
This is one of them, filmed at Coney Island.
Gene’s Lammy is the one that Nerissa is riding passenger on.
Do you know any of the others?

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We’re headed to NSP: Junkyard Dogs in Gettysburg this weekend so we’re closed on Friday 9th October and Saturday 10th October. We’ll reopen on Tuesday 13th October as usual.
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We’re heading down for the Atlanta rally this weekend so we’ll be closed on Friday September 18th and Saturday September 19th.
We will reopen with our usual hours on Tuesday September 22nd.
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