Fun: The 10 Best (Vintage) Scooter Clips Online

We love scooters and more and more people leave their petrol guzzling four wheels at home and again take a scooter, for the drive to the office, around town – or best – just to go for a ride.

With so many new (electrical / hybrid) and more ecologically friendly four stroke scooters coming to the market lets take a look back how it all began. The beautiful Lambrettas from Innocenti or the old Vespas from Piaggio that after the second World War were the only mean of transport available to many Europeans.

By now they have reached cult status, modded or plain original versions parked somewhere most of the times get you into a chat with some people admiring them. You get a happy smile on people’s faces reminding them of great times and a new start in the life of many.

Today you often find scooters prominently placed in advertising for products that have nothing to do with scootering. But for the real thing there are a few clips and videos that bring back the time and let you feel the wind in your hair. Those clips and videos we tried to find and the best ones we have listed below.

Ride on…

Click on the images below for the links

Lambretta Twist

Italian commercial from the 1960′s.

Has a great cheesy retro feeling – weird and funny – in one word : great

(if there’s some interest we’ll post a translation)

Concha Velasco – Vespa

Concha Velasco from “El águila de fuego”.

It’s a song from a Spanish musical but how could you better advertize the Vespa scooters than having 7 girls singing and riding vintage Vespas while “doing gymnastics”.

As one commentator put it – a bit like synchronized swimming but on Vespas.

NSU Lambretta

German commercial from 1955 mixing real images with drawings.

Watch the bear turning the crankshaft and people flying around the engine and other parts.

(if there’s some interest we’ll also post a translation for this one)

Vespa King Kong Ad

Not really a vintage ad but it’s so hilarious we had to smuggle it into the list.

One of our absolute favorites. Must watch

go Vespa go

Old English Vespa commercials compiled into one clip.

(Female) lifeguards in short no skirts. Driverless Vespa.

Get ahead on a Vespa!

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Vespa Stop Motion

A stop-motion video featuring some vintage Vespa advertising.

Author says it took six months to complete the clip – when you watch it you know why – just beautiful, great retro look.

Good Thing – Fine Young Cannibals

Actually a music clip from the outstanding British Band – but it has lots of scooters in it.

riding, riding, riding….

How To Setup A Lambretta Service Station series

A vintage film (25 minutes) showing how to setup a Lambretta repair shop – great original images.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Lambretta LI Stripdown 60s How-to series

A total of about 30 minutes on how to strip down a vintage Lambretta completely (includes reassembly, so you don’t need to wonder where you have forgotten to put in these leftover parts).

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Lunapop – 50 Special

No scooter video list would be complete without this one – the anthem for Vespa riders:

Lunapop – 50 Special (Italian)
and the Spanish version
and the English Version

(Note: The small image at the beginning of this post is from an old Scooter Magazine cover found at the Lambretta Club USA web site)

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