It was the 1953 movie Roman Holiday, in which Audrey Hepburn causes traffic chaos on a Vespa in Rome, that introduced 1940s-invented scooters to the world. Scooterism next peaked with Quadrophenia in 1979, where the gritty lives of its scooter-riding 1960s characters consumed a generation. Today, auctioneer H&H’s first scooter sale on 6 April at the National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull, is a measure of the fast-developing market: last year, a machine went for nearly £11,000 on an estimate of £2,000.
Read the full article on the Financial Times: How vintage scooters got the market in a buzz
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